Cleae'netus
(
*Kleai/netos).
1. Father of Cleon, the Athenian demagogue. (
Thuc. 3.36,
4.21.)
It is doubtful whether he is the same person as the Cleaenetus who is mentioned by Aristophanes (
Aristoph. Kn. 572), and of whom the Scholiast on the passage speaks as the author of a decree for withholding the
σίτησις ἐν Πρυτανείῳ from the generals of the state.