Note 266 — Chapter II · Athens
Reading edition
Thuc. IV. 105, “Brasidas, ... learning that Thucydides owned workings in the gold mines in that part of Thrace, and as a result was one of the most influential men on the mainland”; Marcellinus, Vit. Thuc. 19, “(Thucydides) married a wife from Skapte Hyle in Thrace, who was very wealthy and owned mines in Thrace”; Plut. Cimon, 4.