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be the very highest honors to hmi ; as neither Miltiades nor Themistocles ever received the like. When Miltiades claimed a garland, Sochares of Decelea stood up in the midst of the assembly and opposed it, using words which, though ungracious, were received with applause by the people. " "When you have gained a victory by yourself, Miltiades, then you may ask to triumph so too." Wbat then induced them so particularly to honor Cimon? Was it that under other commanders they stood upon the defensive ? but by his conduct, they not only at- tacked their enemies, but invaded them in their own country, and acquired new territory, becoming masters of Eion and Amphipolis, where they planted colonies, as also they did in the isle of Scyros, which Cimon had taken on the following occasion. The Dolopians were the inhabitants of this isle, a people who neglected all husbandry, and had, for many generations, been devoted to piracy ; this they practised to that degree, that at last they began to plunder foreigners that brought merchan- dise into their ports. Some merchants of Thessaly, Avho had come to shore near Ctesium, were not only spoiled of their goods, but themselves put into confine- ment. These men afterwards escaping from their prison, went and obtained sentence against the Scyrians in a court of Amphictyons, and when the Scyrian people de- clined to make public restitution, and called upon the individuals who had got the plunder to give it up, these persons, in alarm, wrote to Cimon to succor them with his fleet, and declared themselves ready to deliver the town into his hands. Cimon, by these means, got the town, expelled the Dolopian pirates, and so opened the traffic of the iEgean sea. And, understanding that the ancient Theseus, the son of iEgeus, when he fled from Athens and took refuge in this isle, was here treacherously slain by king Lycomedes, who feared him,