pretended to be a deserter,
but who proved himself to be in fact an enemy and a rather hot one
moreover..

39. Then after Stesagoras also had ended his life in this manner,
Miltiades son of Kimon and brother of that Stesagoras who was dead, was
sent in a trireme to the Chersonese to take possession of the government
by the sons of Peisistratos, who had dealt well with him at Athens also,
pretending that they had had no share in the death of his father Kimon,
of which in another part of the history I will set forth how it came
to pass. 25 Now Miltiades, when he came to the Chersonese, kept himself
within his house, paying honours in all appearance 26 to the memory
of his brother Stesagoras; and the chief men of the inhabitants of the
Chersonese in every place, being informed of this, gathered themselves
together from all the cities and came in a body to condole with him, and
when they had come they were laid in bonds by him. Miltiades then was
in possession of the Chersonese, supporting a body of five hundred
mercenary troops; and he married the daughter of Oloros the king of the
Thracians, who was named Hegesipyle.

40. Now this Miltiades son of Kimon had at the time of which we speak
but lately returned 27 to the Chersonese; and after he had returned,
there befell him other misfortunes worse than those which had befallen
him already; for two years before this he had been a fugitive out of
the land from the Scythians, since the nomad Scythians provoked by king
Dareios had joined all in a body and marched as far as this Chersonese,
and Miltiades had not awaited their attack but had become a fugitive
from the Chersonese, until at last the Scythians departed and the
Dolonkians brought him back again. These things happened two years
before the calamities which now oppressed him:.

41, and now, being informed that the Phenicians were at Tenedos, he
filled five triremes with the property which he had at hand and sailed
away for Athens. And having set out from the city of Cardia he was
sailing through the gulf of Melas; and as he passed along by the shore
of the Chersonese, the Phenicians fell in with his ships, and while
Miltiades himself with four of his ships escaped to Imbros, the fifth of
his ships was captured in the pursuit by the Phenicians. Of this ship
it chanced that Metiochos the eldest of the sons of Miltiades was in
command, not born of the daughter of Oloros the Thracian, but of another
woman. Him the Phenic