ife, and that he
was terribly afflicted by her death, to judge by the elegiac poem
which was written to console him, of which Panaetius the philosopher
very reasonably conjectures Archelaus to have been the author.

V. All the rest that we know of Kimon is to his honour. He was as
brave as Miltiades, as clever as Themistokles, and more
straightforward than either. Nor was he inferior to either of them in
military skill, while he far surpassed them in political sagacity,
even when he was quite a young man, and without any experience of
war. For instance, when Themistokles, at the time of the Persian
invasion, urged the Athenians to abandon their city and territory, and
resist the enemy at Salamis, on board of their fleet, while the
greater part of the citizens were struck with astonishment at so
daring a proposal, Kimon was seen with a cheerful countenance walking
through the Kerameikus with his friends, carrying in his hand his
horse's bridle, which he was going to offer up to the goddess Athena
in the Acropolis, in token that at that crisis the city did not need
horsemen so much as sailors. He hung up the bridle as a votive
offering in the temple, and, taking down one of the shields which hung
there, walked with it down towards the sea, thereby causing many of
his countrymen to take courage and recover their spirits. He was not
an ill-looking man, as Ion the poet says, but tall, and with a thick
curly head of hair. As he proved himself a brave man in action he
quickly became popular and renowned in Athens, and many flocked round
him, urging him to emulate the glories won by his father at Marathon.
The people gladly welcomed him on his first entrance into political
life, for they were weary of Themistokles, and were well pleased to
bestow the highest honours in the state upon one whose simple and
unaffected goodness of heart had made him a universal favourite. He
was greatly indebted for his success to the support given him by
Aristeides, who early perceived his good qualities, and endeavoured to
set him up as an opponent to the rash projects and crooked policy of
Themistokles.

VI. When, after the repulse of the Persian invasion, Kimon was sent as
general of the Athenian forces to operate against the enemy in Asia,
acting under the orders of Pausanias, as the Athenians had not then
acquired their supremacy at sea, the troops whom he commanded were
distinguished by the splendour of their dress and arms, and the
exact