Description of Greece

On another slab are the names of those who fought in the region of Thrace and at Megara[*](445 B.C.), and when Alcibiades persuaded the Arcadians in Mantinea and the Eleans to revolt from the Lacedaemonians[*](420 B.C.), and of those who were victorious over the Syracusans before Demosthenes arrived in Sicily. Here were buried also those who fought in the sea-fights near the Hellespont[*](409 B.C.), those who opposed the Macedonians at Charonea[*](338 B.C., those who marched with Cleon to Amphipolis422 B.C.), those who were killed at Delium in the territory of Tanagra[*](424 B.C.), the men Leosthenes led into Thessaly, those who sailed with Cimon to Cyprus[*](449 B.C.), and of those who with Olympiodorus[*](See Paus. 1.26.3.) expelled the garrison not more than thirteen men.

The Athenians declare that when the Romans were waging a border war they sent a small force to help them, and later on five Attic warships assisted the Romans in a naval action against the Carthaginians. Accordingly these men also have their grave here. The achievements of Tolmides and his men, and the manner of their death, I have already set forth, and any who are interested may take note that they are buried along this road. Here lie too those who with Cimon achieved the great feat of winning a land and naval victory on one and the same day.[*](466 B.C.)

Here also are buried Conon and Timotheus, father and son, the second pair thus related to accomplish illustrious deeds, Miltiades and Cimon being the first; Zeno too, the son of Mnaseas and Chrysippus[*](Stoic philosophers.) of Soli, Nicias the son of Nicomedes, the best painter from life of all his contemporaries, Harmodius and Aristogeiton, who killed Hipparchus, the son of Peisistratus; there are also two orators, Ephialtes, who was chiefly responsible for the abolition of the privileges of the Areopagus[*](463-1 B.C.), and Lycurgus,[*](A contemporary of Demosthenes.) the son of Lycophron;

Lycurgus provided for the state-treasury six thousand five hundred talents more than Pericles, the son of Xanthippus, collected, and furnished for the procession of the Goddess golden figures of Victory and ornaments for a hundred maidens; for war he provided arms and missiles, besides increasing the fleet to four hundred warships. As for buildings, he completed the theater that others had begun, while during his political life he built dockyards in the Peiraeus and the gymnasium near what is called the Lyceum. Everything made of silver or gold became part of the plunder Lachares made away with when he became tyrant, but the buildings remained to my time.