s of the goddesses, who had
been a guide to their enemies for the capture of her native city and had
revealed to Miltiades the mysteries which might not be uttered to a male
person. The Pythian prophetess however forbade them, saying that Timo
was not the true author of these things, but since it was destined that
Miltiades should end his life not well, she had appeared to guide him to
his evil fate..

136. Thus the Pythian prophetess replied to the Parians: and the
Athenians, when Miltiades had returned back from Paros, began to talk of
him, and among the rest especially Xanthippos the son of Ariphron, who
brought Miltiades up before the people claiming the penalty of death and
prosecuted him for his deception of the Athenians: and Miltiades did not
himself make his own defence, although he was present, for he was unable
to do so because his thigh was mortifying; but he lay in public view
upon a bed, while his friends made a defence for him, making mention
much both of the battle which had been fought at Marathon and of
the conquest of Lemnos, namely how he had conquered Lemnos and taken
vengeance on the Pelasgians, and had delivered it over to the Athenians:
and the people came over to his part as regards the acquittal from the
penalty of death, but they imposed a fine of fifty talents for the wrong
committed: and after this Miltiades died, his thigh having gangrened and
mortified, and the fifty talents were paid by his son Kimon.

137. Now Miltiades son of Kimon had thus taken possession of the
Lemnos:--After the Pelasgians had been cast out of Attica by the
Athenians, whether justly or unjustly,--for about this I cannot tell
except the things reported, which are these:--Hecataois on the one hand,
the son of Hegesander, said in his history that it was done unjustly;
for he said that when the Athenians saw the land which extends below
Hymettos, which they had themselves given them 121 to dwell in, as
payment for the wall built round the Acropolis in former times, when the
Athenians, I say, saw that this land was made good by cultivation, which
before was bad and worthless, they were seized with jealousy and with
longing to possess the land, and so drove them out, not alleging any
other pretext: but according to the report of the Athenians themselves
they drove them out justly; for the Pelasgians being settled under
Hymettos made this a starting-point and committed wrong against them as
follows:--the daughters and son