The one given the nickname 'Pit-wealthy';[1] serving as general against Artaxerxes he secured the boundaries of the treaties [made] under Kimon.[2] Launching an invasion in his time, the Lakedaimonians, with Pleistoanax the son of Pausanias as king, ravaged Eleusis and the Thriasian Plain. This was still during the fifty-year period [Pentekontaetia] which began after the battle of Plataiai and ended with the capture of Samos and the beginning of the Kerkyraian incidents.
Kallias the Syracusan[3] is rightly and appropriately judged worthy of condemnation, since he was coopted by Agathokles and, having sold away history, the prophetess of truth, for the price of great gifts, never stopped praising his paymaster unjustly. Though no small number of things had been done by him in the way of impieties against the gods and illegalities against men, the historian claims that he exceeded the rest by far in piety and philanthropy. On the whole, though, just as Agathokles took away the goods of the citizens and bestowed what did not belong to him upon the historian contrary to justice, so this amazing historian conferred through his writings every possible virtue on his ruler; but it was an easy matter, I think, in the exchange of favors, for the writer in his adulation not to fall short of the bribery from the royal family.