§4.1Κίμων ὁ Μιλτιάδου μητρὸς ἦν Ἡγησιπύλης, γένος Θρᾴττης, θυγατρὸς Ὀλόρου τοῦ βασιλέως, ὡς ἐν τοῖς Ἀρχελάου καὶ Μελανθίου ποιήμασιν εἰς αὐτὸν Κίμωνα γεγραμμένοις ἱστόρηται.
Cimon, the son of Miltiades, had Hegesipyle as his mother, a woman of Thracian descent, daughter of King Olorus, as is recorded in the poems of Archelaus and Melanthius written to Cimon himself.
διὸ καὶ Θουκυδίδης ὁ ἱστορικὸς τοῖς περὶ Κίμωνα κατὰ γένος προσήκων Ὀλόρου τε πατρὸς ἦν, εἰς τὸν πρόγονον ἀναφέροντος τὴν ὁμωνυμίαν, καὶ τὰ χρυσεῖα περὶ τὴν Θρᾴκην ἐκέκτητο.
For this reason also, Thucydides the historian, being related by descent to Cimon's family, had Olorus for his father, who traced his namesake back to the ancestor, and owned the gold mines in Thrace.
§4.2καὶ τελευτῆσαι μὲν ἐν τῇ Σκαπτῇ ὓλῃ (τοῦτο δʼ ἔστι τῆς Θρᾴκης χωρίον)̓ λέγεται φονευθεὶς ἐκεῖ, μνῆμα δʼ αὐτοῦ τῶν λειψάνων εἰς τὴν Ἀττικὴν κομισθέντων ἐν τοῖς Κιμωνείοις δείκνυται παρὰ τὸν Ἐλπινίκης τῆς Κίμωνος ἀδελφῆς τάφον.
And he is said to have died in Scapte Hyle (which is a place in Thrace), having been murdered there, and the monument of his remains, which were brought back to Attica, is shown among the tombs of Cimon's family, next to the grave of Elpinice, Cimon's sister.
ἀλλὰ Θουκυδίδης μὲν Ἁλιμούσιος γέγονε τῶν δήμων, οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Μιλτιάδην Λακιάδαι.
However, Thucydides belonged to the deme of Halimus, while the family of Miltiades belonged to Laciadae.
§4.3Μιλτιάδης μὲν οὖν πεντήκοντα ταλάντων ὀφλὼν δίκην καὶ πρὸς τὴν ἔκτισιν εἱρχθεὶς ἐτελεύτησεν ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ, Κίμων δὲ μειράκιον παντάπασιν ἀπολειφθεὶς μετὰ τῆς ἀδελφῆς ἔτι κόρης οὔσης καὶ ἀγάμου τὸν πρῶτον ἠδόξει χρόνον ἐν τῇ πόλει καὶ κακῶς ἤκουεν ὡς ἄτακτος καὶ πολυπότης καὶ τῷ πάππῳ Κίμωνι προσεοικὼς τὴν φύσιν, ὃν διʼ εὐήθειάν φασι Κοάλεμον προσαγορευθῆναι.
Now Miltiades, having been condemned to a fine of fifty talents and imprisoned for its payment, died in prison; and Cimon, left behind as a mere youth with his sister who was still an unmarried girl, was at first of no repute in the city and had a bad reputation as disorderly and a hard drinker, resembling in nature his grandfather Cimon, who, they say, because of his simplicity, was surnamed Coalemus.
§4.4Στησίμβροτος δʼ ὁ Θάσιος περὶ τὸν αὐτὸν ὁμοῦ τι χρόνον τῷ Κίμωνι γεγονώς φησιν αὐτὸν οὔτε μουσικὴν οὔτε ἄλλο τι μάθημα τῶν ἐλευθερίων καὶ τοῖς Ἕλλησιν ἐπιχωριαζόντων ἐκδιδαχθῆναι, δεινότητός τε καὶ στωμυλίας Ἀττικῆς ὅλως ἀπηλλάχθαι, καὶ τῷ τρόπῳ πολὺ τὸ γενναῖον καὶ ἀληθὲς ἐνυπάρχειν, καὶ μᾶλλον εἶναι Πελοποννήσιον τὸ σχῆμα τῆς ψυχῆς τοῦ ἀνδρός,
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φαῦλον, ἄκομψον, τὰ μέγιστʼ ἀγαθόν,
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κατὰ τὸν Εὐριπίδειον Ἡρακλέα· ταῦτα γὰρ ἔστι τοῖς ὑπὸ τοῦ Στησιμβρότου γεγραμμένοις ἐπειπεῖν.
But Stesimbrotus of Thasos, who was born at about the same time as Cimon, says that he was taught neither music nor any other of the liberal studies customary among the Greeks, and that he was completely free from Attic cleverness and talkativeness; in his character, there was much of the noble and the true, and the disposition of the man's soul was rather Peloponnesian, "simple, unadorned, in greatest things good," as in the case of the Euripidean Heracles; for it is possible to apply these words to the writings of Stesimbrotus.
§4.5ἔτι δὲ νέος ὢν αἰτίαν ἔσχε πλησιάζειν τῇ ἀδελφῇ.
And while he was still young, he was accused of having intimate relations with his sister.
καὶ γὰρ οὐδʼ ἄλλως τὴν Ἐλπινίκην εὔτακτόν τινα γεγονέναι λέγουσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸς Πολύγνωτον ἐξαμαρτεῖν τὸν ζῳγράφον· καὶ διὰ τοῦτό φασιν ἐν τῇ Πεισιανακτείῳ τότε καλουμένῃ, Ποικίλῃ δὲ νῦν στοᾷ, γράφοντα τὰς Τρῳάδας τὸ τῆς Λαοδίκης ποιῆσαι πρόσωπον ἐν εἰκόνι τῆς Ἐλπινίκης.
Indeed, they say that Elpinice was not well-behaved in other respects either, but was even unchaste with Polygnotus the painter; and for this reason, they say, when painting the Trojan women in the portico which was then called the Peisianacteum, but now the Poikile, he made the face of Laodice in the likeness of Elpinice.
§4.6ὁ δὲ Πολύγνωτος οὐκ ἦν τῶν βαναύσων οὐδʼ ἀπʼ ἐργολαβίας ἔγραφε τὴν στοάν, ἀλλὰ προῖκα, φιλοτιμούμενος πρὸς τὴν πόλιν, ὡς οἵ τε συγγραφεῖς ἱστοροῦσι καὶ Μελάνθιος ὁ ποιητὴς λέγει τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον· "
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Κεκροπίαν κόσμησʼ ἡμιθέων ἀρεταῖς. " §4.7εἰσὶ δʼ οἳ τὴν Ἐλπινίκην οὐ κρύφα τῷ Κίμωνι, φανερῶς δὲ γημαμένην συνοικῆσαι λέγουσιν, ἀξίου τῆς εὐγενείας νυμφίου διὰ τὴν πενίαν ἀποροῦσαν· ἐπεὶ δὲ Καλλίας τῶν εὐπόρων τις Ἀθήνησιν ἐρασθεὶς προσῆλθε τὴν ὑπὲρ τοῦ πατρὸς καταδίκην ἐκτίνειν ἕτοιμος ὢν πρὸς τὸ δημόσιον, αὐτήν τε πεισθῆναι καὶ τὸν Κίμωνα τῷ Καλλίᾳ συνοικίσαι τὴν Ἐλπινίκην.
But Polygnotus was not one of the common craftsmen, nor did he paint the portico for contract work, but for free, out of public spirit toward the city, as the historians relate and the poet Melanthius says in this manner: "For at his own expense he adorned the temples of the gods and the Cecropian market-place with the virtues of the demigods." But some say that Elpinice lived with Cimon not in secret, but married to him openly, because she was in distress owing to poverty and unable to find a husband worthy of her noble birth; but when Callias, one of the wealthy men in Athens, fell in love with her and came forward, ready to pay to the public treasury the fine imposed on her father, she was persuaded and Cimon married Elpinice to Callias.
§4.8οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ ὅλως φαίνεται τοῖς περὶ τὰς γυναῖκας ἐρωτικοῖς ὁ Κίμων ἔνοχος γενέσθαι.
Nevertheless, Cimon seems to have been altogether liable to amorous passions for women.
καὶ γὰρ Ἀστερίας τῷ γένει Σαλαμινίας καὶ πάλιν Μνήστρας τινὸς ὁ ποιητὴς Μελάνθιος μνημονεύει πρὸς τὸν Κίμωνα παίζων διʼ ἐλεγείας, ὡς σπουδαζομένων ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ.
For the poet Melanthius, joking with Cimon in elegiac verses, mentions Asteria, a Salaminian by birth, and again a certain Mnestra, as being courted by him.
§4.9δῆλος δʼ ἐστὶ καὶ πρὸς Ἰσοδίκην τὴν Εὐρυπτολέμου μὲν θυγατέρα τοῦ Μεγακλέους, κατὰ νόμους δʼ αὐτῷ συμβιώσασαν ὁ Κίμων ἐμπαθέστερον διατεθεὶς καὶ δυσφορήσας ἀποθανούσης, εἴ τι δεῖ τεκμαίρεσθαι ταῖς γεγραμμέναις ἐπὶ παρηγορίᾳ τοῦ πένθους ἐλεγείαις πρὸς αὐτόν, ὧν Παναίτιος ὁ φιλόσοφος οἴεται ποιητὴν γεγονέναι τὸν φυσικὸν Ἀρχέλαον, οὐκ ἀπὸ τρόπου τοῖς χρόνοις εἰκάζων.
And it is clear that Cimon was also more passionately attached to Isodice, the daughter of Euryptolemus, Megacles' son, who lived with him as his lawful wife, and that he was deeply distressed when she died, if we are to judge at all by the elegiac poems written to him for the consolation of his grief, of which Panaetius the philosopher thinks the natural philosopher Archelaus was the author, guessing not without reason from the dates.