cylonian

Of or relating to Cylon of Athens, an Athenian noble who attempted a coup in either 636 BCE or 632 BCE.

Now the Cylonian villany had a long while diſtur’d the Commonwealth, even from that time when Megacles the Archon perſwaded the conſpiratours with Cylon that took ſanctuary in Minerva’s Temple, to ſtand to a fair trial; […]

The first of the Cylonian glosses of Suidas (s.v. Κυλώνειον ἄγος) has a marked resemblance to the item from the Heracleidean Excerpts (i.e. ultimately Aristotle’s Respub. Ath.); while the other gloss (s.v. Περικλῆς), rewritten in the light of the former, has a Thucydidean foundation which is discernible in the Scholia cited: […]

Of or relating to Cylon of Croton, a leading citizen of Croton who led a revolt against the Pythagoreans, probably around 509 BCE.

Anyhow it is chronologically impossible that the Archippus of this letter is the same as the Pythagorean who together with Lysis survived the Cylonian slaughter.

ca. 500 (?) Cylonian rebellion against Pythagoras (proceeding from the Crotonian upper class) ➛ Pythagoras’ emigration to Metapontum

A follower of Cylon of Athens, an Athenian noble who attempted a coup in either 636 BCE or 632 BCE.

Solon (the diſcord betwixt the common ſort, and them of the richer ſort of the people being appeaſed) after the ſlaughter of the Cylonians, reſtored vnto his Countrey, the Democraticall or Popular Gouernement, the Oligarchie or Gouernment of ſome few, being quite taken away.

In the line of these purifying sages, the figure of Epimenides stands out in particularly bold relief. Plutarch called him a sage in divine matters, with the sophia given to “the enraptured and the initiate”; it was he they called to Athens to drive off the miasma that had settled over the city after the slaughter of the Cylonians.

A follower of Cylon of Croton, a leading citizen of Croton who led a revolt against the Pythagoreans, probably around 509 BCE.

But I meane not hereupon to ſtand, nor to diſcourfe at large, but to let paſſe what vanity there was in him, to compare the accidents which befell to ſome good and vertuous perſons, as for example, the condemnation of Socrates, the burning of Pythagoras quicke by the Cylonians, […]

When the colledges and companies of the Pythagorian Philoſophers that were diſperſed through the cities of Italie, were baniſhed by the faction of the Cylonians: […]