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Such was the priestess' reply to the Parians. The Athenians had much to say about Miltiades on his return from +Nisos Paros [25.2,37.1] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Paros, especially Xanthippus son of Ariphron, who prosecuted Miltiades before the people for deceiving the Athenians and called for the death penalty.
Such was the priestess' reply to the Parians. The Athenians had much to say about Miltiades on his return from +Nisos Paros [25.2,37.1] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Paros, especially Xanthippus son of Ariphron, who prosecuted Miltiades before the people for deceiving the Athenians and called for the death penalty.
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Miltiades was present but could not speak in his own defense, since his thigh was festering; he was laid before the court on a couch, and his friends spoke for him, often mentioning the fight at Marathon and the conquest of
+Lemnos [25.25,39.916] (island), Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Lemnos: how
Miltiades had punished the
Pelasgians and taken
+Lemnos [25.25,39.916] (island), Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Lemnos, delivering it to the
Athenians.
[3] The people took his side as far as not condemning him to death, but they fined him fifty talents for his wrongdoing.
Miltiades later died of gangrene and rot in his thigh, and the fifty talents were paid by his son
Cimon.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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