202 CIMON.

Cimon was the son of Miltiades and Hegesipyle. who was by birth a Thraeian, and daughter to the king Olorus, as appears from the poems of Melanthius and Archelaus, written in praise of Cimon. By this means the historian Thucydides was his kinsman by the mother's side ; for his father's name also, in remembrance of this common ancestor, was Olorus. and he was the owner of the gold mines in Thrace, and met his death, it is said, by violence, in Scapte Hyle, a district of Thrace ; and his re- mains having afterwards been brought into Attica, a mon- ument is shown as his among those of the family of Cimon, near the tomb of Elpinice, Cimon's sister. But Thucydi- des was of the township of Halimus, and Miltiades and his family were Laciadte. Miltiades, being condemned in a fine of fifty talents to the State, and unable to pay it, was cast into prison, and there died. Thus Cimon was left an orphan very young, with his sister Elpinice, who Avas also young and unmarried. And at first he had but an indifferent reputation, being looked upon as disorderly in his habits, fond of drinking, and resembling his grand- father, also called Cimon, in character, whose simplicity got him the surname of Coalemus.* Stesimbrotus of Thasos, who lived near about the same time with Cimon, reports of him that he had little acquaintance either with music, or any of the other liberal studies and accomplish- ments, then common among the Greeks ; that he had nothing whatever of the quickness and the ready speech of his countrymen in Attica ; that he had great noble- ness and candor in his disposition, and in his character in general, resembled rather a native of Peloponnesus, than of Athens ; as Euripides describes Hercules, Rude And unrefined, for great things well-endued ;

• The simpleton.