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Cleon (died 422 BC)Athenian politician and general in the Peloponnesian War. He became ‘leader of the people’ (demagogue) after the death of Pericles to whom he was opposed. He was an aggressive imperialist and advocated a vigorous war policy against the Spartans. He was killed by the Spartans at Amphipolis in 422 BC. |
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Still it will always have some significant part, as 'in walking,' or 'Cleon son of Cleon. Andrea del Sarto, Fra Lippo Lippi, Cleon, Karshish, Balaustion, and many scores of others, make of his poems a great gallery of portraits unsurpassed in interest by those of any author whatever except Shakspere. Well, sir, I don't believe any boy in the form enjoyed the sets-to between Cleon and the Sausage-seller more than I did-- eh, Arthur? |
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