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CIMON

Volume 6 · 44 words · 1860 Edition

son of Miltiades. See ATTICA, pp. 201-2. The life of Cimon has been written by Plutarch and by Cornelius Nepos.

CIMON of Cleone, a famous painter who flourished about B.C. 460, the inventor of catagraphe, or drawing in perspective. (Plin. viii. 8.) See CATAGRAPHE.