585) and Cleobulus of Lindus (fl.

B.C.

586), tyrants in their lives, and cruel in their actions, were, it is said, disowned by the remaining five [188].

But goodness is not the necessary consequence of intellect, and, despite their vices, these princes deserved the epithet of wise.

Of Cleobulus we know less than of Periander; but both governed with prosperity, and died in old age.