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Cimon,The distinguished Athenian admiral in the war between the Confederacy of Delos and the Persian Empire, and the leader of the
conservative party in Athens until his ostracism
in 461 B.C. the son of Miltiades, when his father had died in
the state prison because he was unable to pay in full the fine,Miltiades was fined fifty talents for his unsuccessful attack upon the island
of Paros in 489 B.C.
in order that he might receive his father's body for burial, delivered himself up to prison and
assumed the debt. Cimon, who
was ambitious to take part in the conduct of the state, at a later time became an able general
and performed glorious deeds by virtue of his personal bravery.Const. Exc. 2 (1), pp.
227-228.
461 B.C.When Euthippus was archon in Athens, the Romans chose as consuls Quintus Servilius and Spurius Postumius
Albinus. During this year, in Asia Artabazus and Megabyzus, who had been dispatched to the war
against the Egyptians, set out from Persia with more
than three hundred thousand soldiers, counting both cavalry and infantry. When they arrived in Cilicia
and Phoenicia, they rested their land forces after the
journey and commanded the Cyprians and Phoenicians and Cilicians to supply ships. And when
three hundred triremes had been made ready, they fitted them out with the ablest marines and
arms and missiles and everything else that is useful in naval warfare. So these leaders were busy with their preparations and with giving their
soldiers training and accustoming every man to the practice of warfare, and they spent almost
this entire year in this way. Meanwhile the Athenians in
Egypt were besieging the troops which had taken