Cleon made a reputation for himself with robbery and marauding warfare in and around Olympus, long occupying the fortress called by ancient geographers Callydium (Strabo) or Calydnium (Eustathius).
In 40 BC Cleon's forces harried an invading body of Parthians led by Quintus Labienus.
In exchange for services rendered in the wars against Mark Antony,[1] Octavian appointed Cleon the priest of the goddess Bellona in the temple-state of Comana and sovereign, therefore, of the surrounding country.
[5] Strabo mentions that Cleon was a priest of Jupiter Abrettenus and ruler of Morene, a region of Mysia noticed by no other writer.
[6] In contemporary accounts, it was written that Cleon died because he ignored a taboo against eating pork in the temple precinct of Bellona.