Cimon

When we were discussing what should be said, and when Cimon remarked that he was afraid Philip would get the better of us in arguing his claims, Demosthenes promised fountains of oratory, and said that he was going to make such a speech about our claims to Amphipolis and the origin of the war that he would sew up Philip’s mouth with an unsoaked rush, and he would persuade the Athenians to permit L …

But when certain men had stirred up trouble and finally caused us to become involved in war with the Lacedaemonians, then, after we had suffered and inflicted many losses, Miltiades, the son of Cimon, who was proxenus of the Lacedaemonians, negotiated with them, and we made a truce for fifty years, and kept it thirteen years.

” When Cimon in carrying supplies to the Lacedaemonians, had marched with his troops through some part of the Corinthian district, the Corinthians expostulated upon his conduct as a violation of their territory, because he had done it without asking their leave, at the same time observing, that no one knocks at another man’s door, or presumes to enter the house without obtaining the master’s leave.

In the same manner, in the time of Cimon, the Persians were bound by a treaty, made with the Athenians, not to sail with any ship of war between the Cyanean rocks and the Chelidonian islands;

Then again, remember how steadfast, how true to their principles your fathers showed themselves, when they ostracized Cimon for breaking the law by taking his own sister to wife;

Pericles also first made the law-courts paid, as a counter-measure to Cimon's wealth.

and after them Ephialtes of the people, and Cimon son of Miltiades of the well-to-do;

For in these times it chanced that the more respectable had no leader at all, but at their head was Cimon son of Miltiades, a younger man who had come late to the city;

Because Cimon had dislocated the ancestral constitution by his personal efforts, they acquitted him by a majority of three votes only on the capital charge, and made him pay fifty talents.

and besides, his son Cimon would have been deprived of his rights for all time, had he not given his sister Elpinice in marriage to a man of low birth who had money, who paid the fine of fifty talents on his behalf.

Miltiades son of Cimon son of Stesagoras was tyrant there.

they had already treated him well at Athens, feigning that they had not been accessory to the death of Cimon his father, which I will relate in another place.

Do you mean, as by Themistocles and Pericles and Cimon, and by all those who have shown themselves able statesmen?

The Greeks, in the very height of their civilisation, prohibited unions between a brother and a half-sister, but they permitted unions between a brother and sister, and the marriage of the celebrated Cimon is an instance.