hucydides and that the earliest reference to it is the
passage in Isocrates (_Paneg._ 118 and 120), there are weighty reasons
which render it improbable that any formal peace can have been concluded
at that period between Athens and Persia (see further Ed. Meyer's
_Forschungen_, ii.).

Cimon's services in connexion with the consolidation of the Empire rank
with those of Themistocles and Aristides. He is described as genial,
brave and generous. He threw open his house and gardens to his
fellow-demesmen, and beautified the city with trees and buildings. But
as a statesman he failed to cope with the new conditions created by the
democracy of Cleisthenes. The one great principle for which he is
memorable is that of the balance of power between Athens and Sparta, as
respectively the naval and military leaders of a united Hellas. It has
been the custom to regard Cimon as a man of little culture and
refinement. It is clear, however, from his desire to adorn the city,
that he was by no means without culture and imagination. The truth is
that, as in politics, so in education and attitude of mind, he
represented the ideals of an age which, in the new atmosphere of
democratic Athens, seemed to savour of rusticity and lack of education.

The lives of Cimon by Plutarch and Cornelius Nepos are uncritical; the
conclusions above expressed are derived from a comparison of Plutarch,
_Cimon_, 17, _Pericles_, 10; Theopompus, fragm. 92; Andocides, _de
Pace_, Sec.Sec. 3, 4; Diodorus xi. 86 (the four months' truce). See
histories of Greece (e.g. Grote, ed. 1907, I vol.); also PERICLES;
DELIAN LEAGUE, with works quoted. (J. M. M.)

CIMON OF CLEONAE, an early Greek painter, who is said to have introduced
great improvements in drawing. He represented "figures out of the
straight, and ways of representing faces looking back, up or down; he
also made the joints of the body clear, emphasized veins, worked out
folds and doublings in garments" (Pliny). All these improvements are
such as may be traced in the drawing of early Greek red-figured vases
(see GREEK ART).

CINCHONA, the generic name of a number of trees which belong to the
natural order Rubiaceae. Botanically the genus includes trees of varying
size, some reaching an altitude of 80 ft. and upwards, with evergreen
leaves and deciduous stipules. The flowers are arranged in panicles,
white or pinkish in colour, with a pleasant odour, the calyx being
5-toothed supe