Calendar: 1880-1881 Page 611

GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 611 all by fire The country about it however was very beauti- ful and fertile and that he settled with Athenians For this reason the people of Athens permitted him to erect there ermre Where Strymon with his silver waves The lofty towers of Eion laves The hapless Mede with famine pressed The force of Grecian arms confess'd Let him who born in distant days Beholds these monuments of praise- These forms that valour's glory save- And sees how Athens crowns the brave For honour feel the patriot-sigh And for his country learn to die Afar to Phrygia's fated lands When Mnestheus leads his Attic bands Behold he bears in Homer still The palm of military skill In every age on every coast Tis thus the sons of Athens boast Though Cimon's name does not appear in any of these in- scriptions yet his contemporaries consider them as the highest pitch of honour For neither Themistocles nor Miltiades were favoured with anything of that kind Nay when the latter asked only for crown of olive Sochares of the ward of Decelea stood up in the midst of the assembly and spoke against it in terms that were not candid indeed but agreeable to the people He said Miltiades when you shall fight the barbarians alone and conquer alone then ask to have honours paid you alone What was it then that induced them to give the preference so greatly to this action of Ciinon Was it not that under the other generals they fought for their lives and existence as people but under him they were able to distress their enemies by carrying war into the countries where they had established themselves and by colonizing Eion and Amphipolis