he Persian commanders who were nearest the coast.
Yet he also effected nothing of any importance, and being recalled to
Greece by the internal troubles of that country, left Persia drawing
tribute from all the Greek cities and friendly districts of the
sea-coast, although in the time of Kimon no Persian tax-gatherer or
Persian horseman was ever seen within a distance of four hundred
stades (fifty miles) from the sea.

His remains were brought back to Attica, as is proved by the monument
which to this day is known as the "Tomb of Kimon." The people of
Kitium,[314] also, however, pay respect to a tomb, said to be that of
Kimon, according to the tale of the orator Nausikrates, who informs us
that once during a season of pestilence and scarcity the people of
Kitium were ordered by an oracle not to neglect Kimon, but to pay him
honour and respect him as a superior being. Such a man as this was the
Greek general.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 306: In Greece, where there were no permanent family names,
it was usual for a family to repeat the same name in alternate
generations. Thus we find that the kings of Cyrene were named
alternately Battus and Archelaus for eight generations, and many other
examples might be quoted.]

[Footnote 307: The Greek lamp was movable, and used to be set upon a
tall slender lamp-stand or candelabrum.]

[Footnote 308: A Thessalian tribe.]

[Footnote 309: See vol. i. 'Life of Theseus,' ch. xxxvi.]

[Footnote 310: It has been conjectured from certain inscriptions that
this name should be spelt Apsephion. But we know that Aphepsion was a
Greek name, while the other form appears unmeaning. The passage is
quoted in Clinton, 'Fasti Hell.,' but both forms are there used.]

[Footnote 311: The daric was a Persian coin, named after King Darius.]

[Footnote 312: The Kyanean or Black Islands were at the junction of
the Bosporus with the Euxine, or Black Sea. The Chelidonian or Swallow
Islands were on the south coast of Lycia.]

[Footnote 313: The office of _proxenus_ corresponds most nearly to the
modern consul. He was bound to offer hospitality and assistance to any
persons of the state which he represented; but it must be remembered
that he was always a member of a foreign state.]

[Footnote 314: A seaport town in Cyprus.]

LIFE OF LUCULLUS.

I. The grandfather of Lucullus[315] was a man of consular rank, and
his uncle on the mother's side was Metellus,[316] surnamed Numidicus.
His father wa