As a Spartan, it is perhaps fitting that Chilon's biography is sparse and his sayings terse. We do know that he lived in the 6th century BC, served as an ephor for the city, and wrote elegiac poetry.
His brother complained that he had not also been elected an ephor, to which Chilon replied, "I know how to …
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