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Division E: The west slope of the Acropolis, the Areopagus, and Academy suburb
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SEC. XXIV
OF ANCIENT ATHENS
569
occasion defeated the Corinthians and Athenians, together
with the Boeotians and Argives, were later themselves com-
pletely worsted at Leuktra by the Boeotians alone.
After those who died at Corinth, an inscription in elegiacs
records that a stone was set up in honour of those who fell in
Euboea and Chios, and the same stone commemorates those
who were killed in the most distant parts of the mainland of
i. 29, 12. Asia, and those who died in Sicily. There are inscribed the
names of the generals, with the exception of Nikias, and those
of the soldiers who were Plataeans, as well as the Athenians.
Nikias was omitted for this reason, according to Philistos,
whom I follow. He says that Demosthenes made terms for
all except himself, and when he was taken, tried to kill him-
self, whereas Nikias willingly surrendered ; for which reason
Nikias’s name was not inscribed on the pillar, since he was
convicted of being a voluntary captive and no soldier or fit
for war.
i. 29, 13. On another stone are the names of those who fought
in Thrace and in Megara, and on the occasion when
Alcibiades induced the Arcadians of Mantineia and the
Eleians to revolt from the Lacedaemonians, and those who
defeated the Syracusans before the arrival of Demosthenes
in Sicily.
There are also buried those who fought in the naval battles
of the Hellespont, and those who opposed the Macedonians
at Chaeronea, and those who went against Amphipolis under
Cleon, and those who fell at Delium in the land of Tanagra,
and those whom Leosthenes led into Thessaly, and those
who sailed to Cyprus with Cimon, and those (only thirteen in
number) who joined Olympiodorus in the feat of expelling
the garrison.
i. 29, 14. The Athenians say that when the Romans were engaged
in a war with one of their neighbours, a small contingent
was sent from Athens, and that later five Attic triremes
took part in a naval engagement between the Romans and
Carthaginians. Accordingly, these men too have a tomb
here.
I have already recounted the deeds of Tolmides and the
men with him, and the manner of their death ; the reader
may like to learn that they too are buried beside this road.
Here also are buried those who under Cimon won the great
ί· 29> T5· battle by land and sea on the same day. Here also are the
tombs of Konon and Timotheos, a second father and son who,
like Miltiades and Cimon, performed most illustrious actions.
Here also lie Zeno, the son of Mnaseas, and Chrysippus of
Soli; Nikias, the son of Nikomedes, the best animal painter
of his day ; Harmodios and Aristogeiton, who slew Hippar-
chos, the son of Peisistratos ; and the statesman Ephialtes, who
OF ANCIENT ATHENS
569
occasion defeated the Corinthians and Athenians, together
with the Boeotians and Argives, were later themselves com-
pletely worsted at Leuktra by the Boeotians alone.
After those who died at Corinth, an inscription in elegiacs
records that a stone was set up in honour of those who fell in
Euboea and Chios, and the same stone commemorates those
who were killed in the most distant parts of the mainland of
i. 29, 12. Asia, and those who died in Sicily. There are inscribed the
names of the generals, with the exception of Nikias, and those
of the soldiers who were Plataeans, as well as the Athenians.
Nikias was omitted for this reason, according to Philistos,
whom I follow. He says that Demosthenes made terms for
all except himself, and when he was taken, tried to kill him-
self, whereas Nikias willingly surrendered ; for which reason
Nikias’s name was not inscribed on the pillar, since he was
convicted of being a voluntary captive and no soldier or fit
for war.
i. 29, 13. On another stone are the names of those who fought
in Thrace and in Megara, and on the occasion when
Alcibiades induced the Arcadians of Mantineia and the
Eleians to revolt from the Lacedaemonians, and those who
defeated the Syracusans before the arrival of Demosthenes
in Sicily.
There are also buried those who fought in the naval battles
of the Hellespont, and those who opposed the Macedonians
at Chaeronea, and those who went against Amphipolis under
Cleon, and those who fell at Delium in the land of Tanagra,
and those whom Leosthenes led into Thessaly, and those
who sailed to Cyprus with Cimon, and those (only thirteen in
number) who joined Olympiodorus in the feat of expelling
the garrison.
i. 29, 14. The Athenians say that when the Romans were engaged
in a war with one of their neighbours, a small contingent
was sent from Athens, and that later five Attic triremes
took part in a naval engagement between the Romans and
Carthaginians. Accordingly, these men too have a tomb
here.
I have already recounted the deeds of Tolmides and the
men with him, and the manner of their death ; the reader
may like to learn that they too are buried beside this road.
Here also are buried those who under Cimon won the great
ί· 29> T5· battle by land and sea on the same day. Here also are the
tombs of Konon and Timotheos, a second father and son who,
like Miltiades and Cimon, performed most illustrious actions.
Here also lie Zeno, the son of Mnaseas, and Chrysippus of
Soli; Nikias, the son of Nikomedes, the best animal painter
of his day ; Harmodios and Aristogeiton, who slew Hippar-
chos, the son of Peisistratos ; and the statesman Ephialtes, who