Good Guy Cimon went way out of his way to help the poor of Athens.

>[…] he [**Cimon**] always went attended by two or three young companions, very well clad; and if he met with an elderly citizen in a poor habit, one of these would change clothes with the decayed citizen, which was looked upon as very nobly done. He enjoined them, likewise, to carry a considerable quantity of coin about them, which they were to convey silently into the hands of the better class of poor men, as they stood by them in the market-place. _____________________ **Source:** Plutarch, John Dryden, and Arthur Hugh Clough. "Cimon." *Plutarch's Lives*. New York: Modern Library, 2001. 650. Print. _____________________ **Further Reading:** [Κίμων (Cimon or Kimon)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimon)