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conceived the wish to be revenged on the Athenians. So, as they were
well acquainted with the Athenian festivals, they manned some
penteconters, and having laid an ambush to catch the Athenian women as
they kept the festival of Diana at Brauron, they succeeded in carrying
off a large number, whom they took to Lemnos and there kept as
concubines. After a while the women bore children, whom they taught to
speak the language of Attica and observe the manners of the Athenians.
These boys refused to have any commerce with the sons of the Pelasgian
women; and if a Pelasgian boy struck one of their number, they all
made common cause, and joined in avenging their comrade; nay, the
Greek boys even set up a claim to exercise lordship over the others,
and succeeded in gaining the upper hand. When these things came to the
ears of the Pelasgians, they took counsel together, and, on
considering the matter, they grew frightened, and said one to another,
"If these boys even now are resolved to make common cause against
the sons of our lawful wives, and seek to exercise lordship over them,
what may we expect when they grow up to be men?" Then it seemed good
to the Pelasgians to kill all the sons of the Attic women; which
they did accordingly, and at the same time slew likewise their
mothers. From this deed, and that former crime of the Lemnian women,
when they slew their husbands in the days of Thoas, it has come to
be usual throughout Greece to call wicked actions by the name of
"Lemnian deeds."
When the Pelasgians had thus slain their children and their women,
the earth refused to bring forth its fruits for them, and their
wives bore fewer children, and their flocks and herds increased more
slowly than before, till at last, sore pressed by famine and
bereavement, they sent men to Delphi, and begged the god to tell
them how they might obtain deliverance from their sufferings. The
Pythoness answered that "they must give the Athenians whatever
satisfaction they might demand." Then the Pelasgians went to Athens
and declared their wish to give the Athenians satisfaction for the
wrong which they had done to them. So the Athenians had a couch
prepared in their townhall, and adorned it with the fairest coverlets,
and set by its side a table laden with all manner of good things,
and then told the Pelasgians they must deliver up their country to
them in a similar condition. The Pelasgians answered and said, "When a
ship comes with a north wind from your country to ours in a single
day, then will we give it up to you." This they said because they knew
that what they required was impossible, for Attica lies a long way
to the south of Lemnos.
No more passed at that time. But very many years afterwards,
when the Hellespontian Chersonese had been brought under the power
of Athens, Miltiades, the son of Cimon, sailed, during the
prevalence of the Etesian winds, from Elaeus in the Chersonese to
Lemnos, and called on the Pelasgians to quit their island, reminding
them of the prophecy which they had supposed it impossible to
fulfil. The people of Hephaestia obeyed the call; but they of
Myrina, not acknowledging the Chersonese to be any part of Attica,
refused and were besieged and brought over by force. Thus was Lemnos
gained by the Athenians and Miltiades.