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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Athenian political and military leader who led the democratic faction after the death of Pericles (429 BC).
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Examples
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Cleon dwelleth in a palace, -- in a cottage I. _Cleon and I. _
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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Teutiaplas whispered in Cleon’s ear and the strategos peered at Phrynus.
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Anyway, a colleague’s currently playing The Warriors game which had me thinking that Cleon is possibly one of the coolest characters with the shortest screen time in the movies.
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He had the prudence never to name Cleon, though he portrayed him in such a way that it was impossible to mistake him.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806
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Perhaps he expresses through "Cleon" some of his own strongest feelings, his insistence on the worth of individuality, his craving for deeper joy, fuller life than this world gives, and his horror of the destruction of personality.
Cobwebs of Thought Arachne
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And a poem by Browning, "Cleon" would have afforded him another example of
Cobwebs of Thought Arachne
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The text of "Cleon" is, "As certain of your own poets have said."
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'Cleon walks', 'Cleon' is an instance of such a part.
Poetics. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle 1911
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'Cleon' belongs to a grand group of poems, in which Browning shows himself to be, as I've said, the most essentially Christian of living poets -- the poet who, more emphatically than any of his contemporaries have done, has enforced the importance, the indispensableness of a new birth, the being born from above
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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Surrey, the "Cleon" of "Childish Recollections" ( 'Poems', vol.i. pp. 101, 102), entered Harrow in April, 1801.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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