As token of his gratitude Cimon caused a monument to be erected in their honor in "the hollow way" near Athens.

We may here remind our readers that the Greeks made use of the Olympic games to determine the date of each year.

They took place every four years.

The first was fixed 776 B.C.

Each separate year was named the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th of such or such an Olympiad.] "The fame of the Alkmaeonidae is, verily, darkening more and more before the Philaidae.