Born in Athens about 471 B.C.; died about 401; celebrated as
a historian; claimed blood relationship with Miltiades and
Cimon; possest an ample fortune; in 424 commanded an
expedition against Brasidas, but failing in it went into
exile, returning to Athens twenty years later; did not live
to finish his "History of the Peloponnesian War," the
narrative ending seven years before the war closed; the
Greek text first printed by Aldus at Venice in 1502.[18]
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