The histories of Herodotus;

134-137] DEATH OF MILTIADES 363
he was just at the door when suddenly a thrill of horror came
over him, and he went back by the same way ; and in leaping
over the fence his thigh was dislocated ; others say that
he hurt his knee. Miltiades accordingly, being in a bad plight,
sailed back home, neither bringing money to the Athenians
nor having reduced Paros, but having besieged it for six-andtwenty
days, and ravaged the island. The Parians, being informed
that Timo, the priestess of the goddesses, had directed
Miltiades, and desiring to punish her for so doing, sent deputies
to the oracle at Delphi as soon as they were relieved from
the siege : they sent to inquire whether they should put to
death the priestess of the goddesses, for having made known
to the enemy the means of capturing her country, and for
having discovered to Miltiades sacred things, which ought
not to be revealed to the male sex. But the Pythian did not
allow them, saying that Timo was not to blame for this,
but that it was fated Miltiades should come to a miserable
end, and she had appeared to him as a guide to misfortunes.
The Pythian gave this answer to the Parians. When Miltiades
returned from Paros, the Athenians were loud in their complaints
against him, both all others, and especially Xanthippus,
son of Ariphron, who, bringing a capital charge against
Miltiades before the people, prosecuted him on a charge of
deceiving the Athenians. Miltiades, though present in person,
made no defence; for he was unable, as his thigh had
begun to mortify. But while he lay on a couch, his friends
made a defence for him, dwelling much on the battle that had
been fought at Marathon, and on the capture of Lemnos;
since, having taken Lemnos, and inflicted vengeance on the
Pelasgians, he had given it up to the Athenians. The people
so far favouring him as to acquit him of the capital offence,
and having fined him fifty talents for the injury he had done,
Miltiades soon afterward ended his life by the putrefaction
and mortification of his thigh. His son Cimon paid the fifty
talents.
Miltiades, son of Cimon, had possessed himself of Lemnos
in the following manner : The Pelasgians, when they had been
driven out of Attica by the Athenians, whether justly or unjustly
(for this I am unable to determine, except so far as is
related). Hecataeus, however, son of Hegesander, says in his
history that it was " unjustly, for that, when the Athenians
saw the lands under Hymettus, which they had given to the
Pelasgians in payment for the wall they had formerly built
about the Acropolis ; when the Athenians saw this well cultivated,
which was before barren and of no value, jealousy and