Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Cleaenetus 1.
CLEAE'NETUS (Κλεαίνετος). Father of Cleon, the Athenian demagogue. (Thuc. iii. 36, iv. 21.) It is doubtful whether his is the same person as the Cleaenetus who is medioned by Aristophanes (Eq. 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. [E. E.]