Clytus

• Son of Aegyptus, Hyg. Fab. 170.—
• II A companion of Phineus, Ov. M. 5, 87.—
• III A praetor of the Acarnanians, Liv. 36, 11, 8 sq.

(Κλυτός), the name of three mythical personages. (Hyg. Fab. 124, 170; Ov. Met. 5.87.) [L.S]

(Κλύτος), a Milesian and a disciple of Aristotle, was the author of a work on the history of his native city. The two passages of Athenaeus (xii. p. 540d., xiv. p. 655b.), in which this work is quoted, must be assimilated to one another either by reading Κλύτος in the first or Κλεῖτος in the second, for it is clear that reference is made in both to the same author and the same treatise. In the passage of Diogenes Laertius (1.25),--καὶ αὐτὸς δέ φησιν, ὡς Ἡρακλείδης ἱστορεῖ, κ. τ. λ.,--Menagius proposes, with much show of probability, the substitution of Κλύτος for αὐτός, as a notice of Thales would naturally find a place in an account of Miletus. It does not appear what ground there is for the assertion of Vossius (de Hist. Graec. p. 91, ed. Westermann), that Clytus accompanied Alexander on his expedition. The passage in Valerius Maximus to which he refers (9.3, extern. § 1), speaks only of the Cleitus who was murdered by the king. [E.E]