Clisthĕnes, the last tyrant of Sicyon. Aristotle.——An Athenian of the family of Alcmæon. It is said that he first established ostracism, and that he was the first who was banished by that institution. He banished Isagoras, and was himself soon after restored. Plutarch, Aristotle.—Herodotus, bk. 5, ch. 66, &c.——A person censured as effeminate and incontinent. Aristotle.——An orator. Cicero, Brutus, ch. 7.
Clitæ, a people of Cilicia. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 12, ch. 55.——A place near mount Athos. Livy, bk. 44, ch. 11.
Clitarchus, a man who made himself absolute at Eretria, by means of Philip of Macedonia. He was ejected by Phocion.——An historian, who accompanied Alexander the Great, of whose life he wrote the history. Curtius, bk. 9, ch. 5.
Clite, the wife of Cyzicus, who hung herself when she saw her husband dead. Apollonius, bk. 1.—Orpheus.
Cliternia, a town of Italy. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 4.
Clitodēmus, an ancient writer. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 15.
Clitomăchus, a Carthaginian philosopher of the third academy, who was pupil and successor to Carneades at Athens, B.C. 128. Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers.——An athlete of a modest countenance and behaviour. Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 3, ch. 30.
Clitonymus, wrote a treatise on Sybaris and Italy.
Clitophon, a man of Rhodes, who wrote a history of India, &c.
Clitor, a son of Lycaon.——A son of Azan, who founded a city in Arcadia, called after his name. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 4.—Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 8. Ceres, Æsculapius, Ilythia, the Dioscuri, and other deities, had temples in that city. There is also in this town a fountain called Clitorium, whose waters gave a dislike for wine. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 15, li. 322.—Pliny, bk. 32, ch. 2.——A river of Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 12.