CLEON

Ridiculed as tanner;
= Paphlagon in Aristophanes' Knights;
General in 425 and 422;
In 425 won important battle at Pylos;
Killed on expedition to Thrace outside Amphipolis in 421;
Appears alot in Thucydides;
The first of the new politicians;
Increased juror's pay from two to three obols; original payment had been introduced by Pericles.
Aristotle, Rhetoric: "just as, when the public criers ask, 'Whom does the freedman [= metic] choose for his patron?' [even] the children shout 'Cleon.'"
Meaning? Probably that Cleon was regarded as litigious, and so undertook sponsorship of freed slaves so that he could bring cases for them.
Subtext? Cleon was pro-democratic and thus a willing sponsor of metics and freedpersons. Oligarchs, by contrast, wanted citizenship restricted to upper-class types.