Kylonian

Adjective

Cylonian (not comparable)

1. 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; […]1683, Plutarch, “The Life of Solon”, in Thomas Creech, transl., Plutarchs Lives. Translated from the Greek […], volume I, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 289
2. 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.1971, G[erhard] J[ean] D[anie͏̈l] Aalders, “Political Thought and Political Programs in the Platonic Epistles”, in Pseudepigrapha I: Pseudopythagorica — Lettres de Platon, Littérature...

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