Cleo'menes
2. Of Rhegium, a dithyrambic poet, censured by Chionides (
Athen. 14.638e.), and by Aristophanes, according to the Scholiast. (
Nubes, 332, 333.)
He seems to have been an erotic writer, since Epicrates mentions him in connexion with Sappho, Meletus, and Lamynthius. (
Athen. 14.605e.)
The allusions of other comedians to him fix his date in the latter part of the fifth century B. C. One of his poems was entitled
Meleager. (
Athen. 9.402a.)