LINDUS, (anc. geog.), a town of Rhodes, situated on an eminence, on the south-east side of the island; with a temple of Minerva firnamed Lindia, built by Danaus, Herodotus, and Strabo; in which the seventh Olympionic ode of Pindar was written in letters of gold. The town was built by Telepolemus the son of Hercules, according to Diodorus Siculus; by one of the Heliades, grandsons of the Sun, named Lindus, according to Strabo. It was the native place of Cleobulus, one of the wise men. It is still extant, and called Lindo.