7.4
Valorous-hearted as well were they who at Eion fighting, Facing the sons of the Medes, Strymon’s current beside, Fiery famine arrayed, and gore-flecked Ares, against them, Thus first finding for foes that grim exit,—despair; and on the second:— Unto their leaders reward by Athenians thus hath been given; Benefits won such return, valorous deeds of the brave. All the more strong at the sight will the men of the future be eager, Fighting for commonwealth, war’s dread strife to maintain;
7.5
and on the third:— With the Atridae of old, from this our city, Menestheus Led his men to the plain Trojan called and divine. He, once Homer asserted, among well-armoured Achaeans, Marshaller was of the fight, best of them all who had come. Thus there is naught unseemly in giving that name to Athenians; Marshallers they both of war and of the vigor of men.
8.1
Although these inscriptions nowhere mentioned Cimon by name, his contemporaries held them to be a surpassing honor for him. Neither Themistocles nor Miltiades achieved any such, nay, when the latter asked for a crown of olive merely, Sophanes the Deceleian rose up in the midst of the assembly and protested. His speech was ungracious, but it pleased the people of that day. When, said he, thou hast fought out alone a victory over the Barbarians, then demand to be honored alone.
8.2
Why, then, were the people so excessively pleased with the achievement of Cimon? Perhaps it was because when the others were their generals they were trying to repel their enemies and so avert disaster; but when he led them they were enabled to ravage the land of their enemies with incursions of their own, and acquired fresh territories for settlement, not only Eion itself, but also Amphipolis.
