Cimon
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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When the Greek Minister wrote his neat, self-controlled Cimon P. Diamantopoulos, the consonants reached across the parchment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inside, white-haired, friendly little Minister Cimon P. Diamantopoulos gravely stated his pride in his country.
From Time Magazine Archive
The probability is that when the expedition failed, Cimon was ostracized, and that then Ephialtes defeated the Areopagus, and also made a change in foreign policy by making alliances with Sparta’s enemies, Argos and Thessaly.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
His son, Cimon, could not pay his father’s debts; he therefore assumed his debts and fetters, that his father might have funeral rites.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
To her brother Cimon she proved a devoted sister.
From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell
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