Cleonymus
Κλεώνυμος
(Κλεώνυμος).
1. An Athenian, who is frequently attacked by Aristophanes as a pestilent demagogue, of burly stature, gluttonous, perjured, and cowardly. (Aristoph. Ach. 88, 809, Eq. 953, 1290, 1369, Nub. 352, 399, 663, &c., Vesp. 19, 592, 822, Pax, 438, 656, 1261, Av. 289, 1475; comp. Ael. VH 1.27.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.