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[7] Here too lie the men of Cleone, who came with the Argives into Attica1; the occasion whereof I shall set forth when in the course of my narrative I come to the Argives. There is also the grave of the Athenians who fought against the Aeginetans before the Persian invasion. It was surely a just decree even for a democracy when the Athenians actually allowed slaves a public funeral, and to have their names inscribed on a slab, which declares that in the war they proved good men and true to their masters. There are also monuments of other men, their fields of battle lying in various regions. Here lie the most renowned of those who went against Olynthus2, and Melesander who sailed with a fleet along the Maeander into upper Caria3;

1 457 B.C.

2 349 B.C.

3 430 B.C.

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