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Elteshamum etiam vicinum Grenouico, ac Somaridunum castellum Lindian� prouinci�, 鎑ificijs illustria reddidit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Such were Thales of Miletus, and Pittacus of Mitylene, and Bias of Priene, and our own Solon, and Cleobulus the Lindian, and Myson the Chenian; and seventh in the catalogue of wise men was the Lacedaemonian Chilo.
PROTAGORAS Plato 1889
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Mytilene, Bias the Prienean, and our own Solon, Cleobulus the Lindian, and Myson of Chen, and the seventh among them was called Chilon, a
Plato and Platonism Walter Pater 1866
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Bias of Priene, and our own Solon, and Cleobulus the Lindian, and
Protagoras 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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Thus the maxim of Cleobulus the Lindian, métron äriston, Mediocrity is best, has been long considered as an universal principle, extended through the whole compass of life and nature.
The Rambler, sections 1-54 (1750); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume I 1750
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