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The remaining evidence for Thucydides ' life comes from rather less reliable later ancient sources.

According to Pausanias, someone named Oenobius was able to get a law passed allowing Thucydides to return to Athens, presumably sometime shortly after the city's surrender and the end of the war in 404 BC.

Pausanias goes on to say that Thucydides was murdered on his way back to Athens.

Many doubt this account, seeing evidence to suggest he lived as late as 397 BC.

Plutarch claims that his remains were returned to Athens and placed in Cimon's family vault.