Lacedaemonians, they sent orders to the generals, forbidding them to receive him.  Upon this he went away, after having begged Euthippus the Anaphlystian and those of his friends who were especially suspected of Laconian leanings, to fight bravely, and by their deeds to efface this suspicion from the minds of their fellow-citizens.  They took Kimon’s armour, and set it up in their ranks; and then, fighting in one body round it with desperate courage, they all fell, one hundred in number, causing great grief to the Athenians for their loss, and for the unmerited accusation which had been brought against them.  This event caused a revulsion of popular feeling in favour of Kimon, when the Athenians remembered how much they owed him, and reflected upon the straits to which they were now reduced, as they had been defeated in a great battle at Tanagra, and expected that during the summer Attica would be invaded by the Lacedaemonians.  They now recalled Kimon from exile; and Perikles himself brought forward the decree for his restoration.  So moderate were the party-leaders of that time, and willing to subordinate their own differences to the common welfare of their country.

XVIII.  On his return Kimon at once put an end to the war, and reconciled the two states.  After the peace had been concluded, however, he saw that the Athenians were unable to remain quiet, but were eager to increase their empire by foreign conquest.  In order, therefore, to prevent their quarrelling with any other Greek state, or cruising with a large fleet among the islands and the Peloponnesian coast, and so becoming entangled in some petty war, he manned a fleet of two hundred triremes with the intention of sailing a second time to Cyprus and Egypt, wishing both to train the Athenians to fight against barbarians, and also to gain legitimate advantages for Athens by the plunder of her natural enemies.  When all was ready, and the men were about to embark, Kimon dreamed that he saw an angry dog barking at him, and that in the midst of its barking it spoke with a human voice, saying,

    “Go, for thou shalt ever be
    Loved both by my whelps and me.”

This vision was very hard to interpret.  Astyphilus of Poseidonia, a soothsayer and an intimate friend of Kimon’s, told him that it portended his death, on the following grounds.  The dog is the enemy of the man at whom he barks:  now a man is never so much loved by his enemies as when he is dead; and the mixture of the voice, being partly that of a dog and partly that of a man, signifies the Persians, as their army was composed partly of Greeks and partly of barbarians.  After this dream Kimon sacrificed to Dionysus.  The prophet cut up the victim, and the blood as it congealed was carried by numbers of ants towards Kimon, so that his great toe was covered with it before he noticed them.  At the moment when Kimon observed this, the priest came up to him to tell him that the liver of the victim was defective.