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So Miltiades sailed back home in a sorry condition, neither bringing money for the Athenians nor having won +Nisos Paros [25.2,37.1] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Paros; he had besieged the town for twenty-six days and ravaged the island.
So Miltiades sailed back home in a sorry condition, neither bringing money for the Athenians nor having won +Nisos Paros [25.2,37.1] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Paros; he had besieged the town for twenty-six days and ravaged the island.
[2] The
Parians learned that
Timo the under-priestess of the goddesses had been
Miltiades' guide and desired to punish her for this. Since they now had respite from the siege, they sent messengers to
Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi to ask if they should put the under-priestess to death for guiding their enemies to the capture of her native country, and for revealing to
Miltiades the rites that no male should know.
[3] But the
Pythian priestess forbade them, saying that
Timo was not responsible:
Miltiades was doomed to make a bad end, and an apparition had led him in these evils.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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