Plutarch  gives  certain  information  as  to  his  family  relation-
ships in  the  'life'  of  Kimon.*  '  Kimon  the  son  of  Miltiades
had  for  his  mother  Hegesipyle,  a  Thracian  by  race,  daughter
of  King  Oloros,  as  is  related  in  the  poems  of  Archelaos  and
Melanthios  written  for  Kimon  himself  Wherefore  also
Thucydides  the  historian,  being  akin  to  Kimon's  family,
was  son  of  Oloros,  who  owed  his  identity  of  name  to  his
ancestors,  and  possessed  the  gold  mines  in  Thrace'  .  ..
'  And  his  (Thucydides')  remains  being  taken  to  Attica,  his
monument  is  shown  among  those  of  Kimon's  family,  beside
the  tomb  of  Elpinike  the  sister  of  Kimon.  But  Thucydides
was  an  AHmousian  by  deme,  whereas  Miltiades'  family
were  Lakiadae.'  Pausanias^  mentions  a  statue  of 'Thucy-
dides the  son  of  Oloros '  at  Athens.
The  whole  tale  with  regard  to  the  tomb  at  Athens  is
suspect ;  and,  if  so,  the  alleged  relationship  with  the  Philaid
family  is  suspect  also,  because  the  allegation  seems  to  hang

'  In  Europe  generally  the  proportion  of  persons  between  fifty  and
sixty  years  of  age  is  eighty-three  per  thousand  ;  in  Greece  it  is  fifty-five.
Of  persons  over  sixty  the  proportion  in  Europe  is  eighty-seven,  in
Greece  is  fifty-three  per  thousand.  Cf.  STano-TiK^  r^s  'EXXaSos,  ttX?;-
Bva-fios,  1879,  p.  28.
^  Marcellinus  does  not  give  any  indication  of  the  date  of  Thucydides'
birth.
^  Thuc.  iv.  104.  Thucydides  made  strict  rules  for  himself  with
regard  to  the  paternal  name  ;  but  many  passages  from  v.  25  to  the
end  of  his  work  violate  the  rule.  The  Athenian  nobility  did  not  use
the  paternal  name,  but  the  name  of  the  deme  (Wilamowitz,  Hermes,
xii.).
*  Plut.  Ki7n.  4.  '  Paus.  i.  23.  9.
