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just reached the door, when suddenly a feeling of horror came upon
him, and he returned back the way he had come; but in jumping down
from the outer wall, he strained his thigh, or, as some say, struck
the ground with his knee.
So Miltiades returned home sick, without bringing the Athenians
any money, and without conquering Paros, having done no more than to
besiege the town for six-and-twenty days, and ravage the remainder
of the island. The Parians, however, when it came to their knowledge
that Timo, the under-priestess of the goddesses, had advised Miltiades
what he should do, were minded to punish her for her crime; they
therefore sent messengers to Delphi, as soon as the siege was at an
end, and asked the god if they should put the under-priestess to
death. "She had discovered," they said, "to the enemies of her country
how they might bring it into subjection, and had exhibited to
Miltiades mysteries which it was not lawful for a man to know." But
the Pythoness forbade them, and said, "Timo was not in fault; 'twas
decreed that Miltiades should come to an unhappy end; and she was sent
to lure him to his destruction." Such was the answer given to the
Parians by the Pythoness.
The Athenians, upon the return of Miltiades from Paros, had much
debate concerning him; and Xanthippus, the son of Ariphron, who
spoke more freely against him than all the rest, impleaded him
before the people, and brought him to trial for his life, on the
charge of having dealt deceitfully with the Athenians. Miltiades,
though he was present in court, did not speak in his own defence;
for his thigh had begun to mortify, and disabled him from pleading his
cause. He was forced to lie on a couch while his defence was made by
his friends, who dwelt at most length on the fight at Marathon,
while they made mention also of the capture of Lemnos, telling how
Miltiades took the island, and, after executing vengeance on the
Pelasgians, gave up his conquest to Athens. The judgment of the people
was in his favour so far as to spare his life; but for the wrong he
had done them they fined him fifty talents. Soon afterwards his
thigh completely gangrened and mortified: and so Miltiades died; and
the fifty talents were paid by his son Cimon.
Now the way in which Miltiades had made himself master of Lemnos
was the following. There were certain Pelasgians whom the Athenians
once drove out of Attica; whether they did it- justly or unjustly I
cannot say, since I only know what is reported concerning it, which is
the following: Hecataeus, the son of Hegesander, says in his History
that it was unjustly. "The Athenians," according to him, "had given to
the Pelasgi a tract of land at the foot of Hymettus as payment for the
wall with which the Pelasgians had surrounded their citadel. This land
was barren, and little worth at the time; but the Pelasgians brought
it into good condition; whereupon the Athenians begrudged them the
tract, and desired to recover it. And so, without any better excuse,
they took arms and drove out the Pelasgians." But the Athenians
maintain that they were justified in what they did. "The
Pelasgians," they say, "while they lived at the foot of Hymettus, were
wont to sally forth from that region and commit outrages on their
children. For the Athenians used at that time to send their sons and
daughters to draw water at the fountain called 'the Nine Springs,'
inasmuch as neither they nor the other Greeks had any household slaves
in those days; and the maidens, whenever they came, were used rudely
and insolently by the Pelasgians. Nor were they even content thus; but
at the last they laid a plot, and were caught by the Athenians in
the act of making an attempt upon their city. Then did the Athenians
give a proof how much better men they were than the Pelasgians; for
whereas they might justly have killed them all, having caught them
in the very act of rebelling, the; spared their lives, and only
required that they should leave the country. Hereupon the Pelasgians
quitted Attica, and settled in Lemnos and other places." Such are
the accounts respectively of Hecataeus and the Athenians.
These same Pelasgians, after they were settled in Lemnos,