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MILON. MILTIADES. 1087
adversary. By these successes he obtained great 3. An Epeirot, who assassinated DeYdtameia,
distinction among his countrymen, so that he was the daughter of Pyrrhus II., at the altar of Diana,
even appointed to command the army, with which to which she had fled for refuge [DEIDAMBIA].
they took the field against the Sybarites under For this sacrilege he was punished by a fit of
Telys, and bore an important part in the great frenzy, and put an end to his own life in a miserbattle at the Crathis, s.c. 511. Diodorus even able manner. (Justin. xxviii. 3.)
goes so far as to attribute the memorable victory 4. Of Beroea, an officer in the army of Perseus,
of the Crotoniats on that occasion almost wholly with which he opposed the Roman consul P. Licito the personal strength and prowess of Milon, nius Crassus B.c. 171. (Liv. xlii. 58.) He is
who is said to have taken the field accoutred like again mentioned as holding an important command
Hercules, and wearing the chaplet of his Olympic under Perseus just before the battle of Pydna,
victory. (Diod. xii. 9.) This is the only instance B. c. 166. After that action he fled, with his two
in which he appears in any public capacity; but colleagues, Hippias and Pantauchus, to Beroea,
we learn from Herodotus that, so great was the where they were the first to set the example of
reputation he enjoyed, that when the physician defection, by surrendering that fortress into the
Democedes took refuge at Crotona, he hastened to hands of Aemilius Paullus. (Liv. xliv. 32, 45;
obtain a daughter of Milon in marriage, trusting to Plut. Aeimil. 1 6.) [E. H. B.]
the effect that his name would produce even upon MILO'NIA CAESO'NIA. [CAESONIA.]
the Persian king. (Herod. iii. 137.) Many stories MILTAS (Mihras), a Thiessalian soothsayer,
are related by ancient writers of his extraordinary who accompanied Dion on his expedition against
feats of strength, which are for the most part well Dionysius. He was also attached to the Platonic
known; such as his carrying a heifer of four years philosophy. (Plut. Dion, p. 967, c.; Fabric. Bibl.
old on his shoulders through the stadium at Graec. vol. iii. p. 179.) [C. P. M.]
Olympia, and afterwards eating the whole of it in MILTIADES (MLhTLa'ils), a name borne by at
a single dlay. Some of the modes by which he least three of the family of the Cimonidae. [See
displayed his gigantic powers before the assembled the stemma in the article CIMON.] The family
multitude appear to have been commemorated by sprang from Aegina, and traced their descent to
the attitude of his statue at Olympia, at least if we Aeacus. In the genealogy of the family given in
may trust the account of it given by Philostratus; the life of Thucydides which bears the name of
but Pausanias, while he relates the same anecdotes, Marcellinus, mention is made of a Miltiades, son
does not give us to understand that the statue of Tisander; but it is very questionable whether
itself was so represented. (Paus. vi. 14. ~~ 6, 7; even the text is correct. The two following are
Phlilostr. Vit. Apoll. iv. 28.) celebrated:-l. The son of Cypselus, who was a
The mode of his death is thus related: as he was man of considerable distinction in Athens in the
passing through a forest when enfeebled by age, he time of Peisistratus. The Doloncians, a Thracian
saw the trunk of a tree which had been partially tribe dwelling in the Chersonesus, being hard
split open by woodcutters, and attempted to rend pressed in war by the Absinthians, applied to the
it further, but the wood closed upon his hands, Delphic oracle for advice, and were directed to
and thus held him fast, in which state he was admit a colony led by the man who should be the
attacked and devoured by wolves. (Diod. xii. 9; first to entertain them after they left the temple.
Paus., vi. 14, ~ 5-8; Athen. x. p. 412; Aelian, This was Miltiades, who, eager to escape from the
V. H. ii. 24; Gell. xv. 16; Val. Max. ix. 12, rule of Peisistratus, gladly took the lead. of a colony
ext. 9; Suid. s.v. MTcawP; Schol. ad T/seocr. iv. 6; under the sanction of the oracle, and became
Schol. ad Aristoph. Ran. 55; Tzetz. Chil. ii. 460; tyrant of the Chersonese, which he fortified by a
Cic. de Sen. 10.) wall built across its isthmus. In a war with the
The age of Milon is clearly fixed by the passages people of Lampsacus he was taken prisoner, but
above cited from Diodorus and Herodotus: Aulus was set at liberty on the demand of Croesus. He
Gellius, who states that he was victor in the 50th died without leaving any children, and his soveOlympiad, is certainly in error. reignty passed into the hands of Stesagoras, the son
2. A general in the service of Pyrrhus king of of his half-brother Cimon. Sacrifices and games
Epeirus, who sent him forward with a body of were instituted in his honour, in which no Lamptroops to garrison the citadel of Tarentum, pre- sacene was suffered to take part. (Herod. vi. 34,
vious to his own arrival in Italy. (Zonar. viii. 2.) 38, 103, 36-38.) Both Cornelius Nepos (Milt,
He appears to have accompanied Pyrrhus through- i. ]) and Pausaliias (vi. 19. ~ 6) confound this
out his campaigns in that country, and is men- Miltiades with the following.
tioned as urging the king to continue the war after 2. The son of Cimon and brother of Stesagoras,
the battle of Heracleia in opposition to the'pacific became tyrant of the Chersonesus on the death of
counsels of Cineas. When Pyrrhus went into the latter, being sent out by Peisistratus from
Sicily, B. c. 278, he left Milon to hold the com- Athens to take possession of the vacant inheritmand in Italy during his absence; and when he ance. By a stratagem he got the chief men of the
finally quitted that country and withdrew into Chersonesus into his power and threw them into
Epeirus, he still left him in charge of the citadel of prison, and took a force of mercenaries into his
Tarentum, together with- his son Helenus. Ac- pay. In order probably to strengthen his position
cording to Justin, they were both recalled by still more he married Hegesipyla, the daughter of
Pyrrhus himself soon afterwards; but Zonaras a Thracian prince named Olorus. (Herod. vi. 39.)
states that he was hard pressed by the Tarentines He joined Dareius Hystaspis on his expedition
themselves, assisted by a Carthaginian fleet, and against the Scythians, and was left with the other
was in consequence induced to surrender the Greeks in charge of the bridge over the Danube.
citadel to the Romans, on condition of being (Herod. iv. 137.) That when the appointed -time
allowed to withdraw his garrison in safety. (Zonar. had expired and Dareius had not returned, Milviii. 4, 5, 6; Justin. xxv. 3.) tiades recommended the Greeks to destroy the