CLEOMENES, a sculptor, son of Apollodorus of Athens, is supposed to be the author of the celebrated statue known as the Venus de' Medici, which bears on its pedestal an inscription to that effect, the genuineness of which has been

much disputed, though apparently without good reason. Cleomenes II. He flourished some time between B.C. 363 and 146. (See Smith's Diet. of Greek and Rom. Biog. and Mythol.)