Chilon Quotes


Do nothing immoderate.


Citations

Diogenes Laërtius. The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. Translated by C. D. Yonge, H. G. Bohn, 1853, p. 33.

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Chilon
Chilon
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  • Nationality: Greek
  • Profession: Poet

Chilon of Sparta (fl. 6th century BCE) was a Spartan and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Chilon was the son of Damagetus, and lived towards the beginning of the 6th century BC. Herodotus speaks of him as contemporary with Hippocrates, the father of Peisistratus. Diogenes Laërtius states that he was an old man in the 52nd Olympiad (572 BC), and that he was elected an ephor (overseer) in Sparta in the 56th Olympiad (556/5 BC). Alcidamas states that he was a member of the Spartan assembly.