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1 088 MILTIADES. MIMNERMUS.
bridge and leave Dareius to his fate, is the account and after receiving a dangerous hurt in the leg
repeated by every writer since Herodotus; but while penetrating into a sacred enclosure on some
doubts have been raised respecting its truth which superstitious errand, he was compelled to raise the
it is not easy to set aside. If true it could not' siege and return to Athens, where he was imhave remained unknown to Dareius, and yet Mil- peached by Xanthippus for having deceived the
tiades was left in quiet possession of his principality people. His wound had turned into a gangrene,
for several years, though during that period a and being unable to plead his cause in person he
Persian force was engaged in military operations was brought into court on a couch, his brother
in his neighbourhood. Bishop Thirlwall (History Tisagoras conducting his defence for him. He was
of Greece, vol. ii. Appendix 2) is inclined to look condemned, but on the ground of his services to
upon the story as a fabrication which was invented the state the penalty was commuted to a fine of
and spread after Miltiades came to Athens for the fifty talents, the cost of the equipment of the arpurpose of counteracting the odium with which he mament. Being unable to pay this he was thrown
was at first regarded as a tyrant. Some time after into prison, where he not long after died of his
the expedition of Dareius an inroad of the Scythians wound. The fine was afterwards paid by his son
drove Miltiades from his possessions; but after the Cimon. (Herod. vi.'132-136; Plut. Cimon, p.
enemy had retired the Doloncians brought him 480, d.) After his death a separate monument
back. (Herod. vi.. 40.) It appears to have been was erected to his memory on the field of Marathon.
between this period and his withdrawal to Athens (Paus. i. 15. ~ 3.)
that Miltiades conquered and expelled the Pelas- 3. A grandson of the preceding, the son of
gian inhabitants of Lemnos and Imbros'and sub- Cimon, of the name of Miltiades, is mentioned in
jected the islands to the dominion of Attica. the scholia on Aristides (iii. p. 515, Dindorf), and
(Herod. vi. 137, 140.) The story of the origin of by Aeschines (de Falsa Leg. p. 301, ed. Steph.),
the enmity between the Athenians and. these Pe- who speaks of him as having gone as herald to
lasgians, of the promise made by the offenders in the Lacedaemonians before the conclusion of the
accordance with the direction of the oracle to sur- fifty years' truce. [C. P. M.]
render their islands to the Athenians, and the MILTIADES, joint commander of the Peloponmode in which they attempted to elude it by nesian fleet with Lysander and Philochares at the
offering to surrender them when a fleet should sail close of the Peloponnesian war. (Lys. adv. Erato them from Attica in one dav with a north wind, lost/s. p. 430, ed. Reiske.) [C. P. M.]
and of the way in which Miltiades, setting out MIMALLON (MqyaAAh'Y, or M,1AaXAc'), the
from the Chersonesus, which was in some sort Macedonian name of the Bacchantes, or, according
Attic ground, fulfilled the seemingly impossible to others,. of Bacchic Amazons (Strab. x. p. 468
condition, and demanded the surrender which he Plut. Alex. 2;. Lycoph. 1464). The name is comhad the power to enforce from those who resisted, monly connected with the verb uiuto-Oat,, to imitate,
will be found in Herodotus. Lemnos and Imbros because on one occasion, it is said, the Macedonians
belonged to the Persian dominions (Herod. v. 26), while at war with the Illyrian king Calander, added
and Thirlwall has suggested that this encroachment the Bacchantes to their army, in order to make it
on the Persian possessions was probably the cause appear more numerous (Schol. ad Pers. Sat. i. 99)
which drew upon Miltiades the hostility of Dareius, but the etymology is uncertain. Ovid (Ars Am.
and led him to fly from the Chersonesus when the i. 541) uses the form Mimallonides for MimalPhoenician fleet approached, after the subjugation lones. [L. S.]
of Ionia. Miltiades reached Athens in safety, but MIMAS(Mi/cas). 1. A Centaur. (Hes. Scut.
his eldest son Metiochus fell into the hands of Here. 186.)
the Persians. (Herodot. vi. 41.) At Athens 2. A giant who' is said to have been killed by
Miltiades was arraigned, as being amenable to Ares. or by Zeus with a flash of lightning (Apollon.
the penalties enacted against tyranny, but was Rhod. iii. 1227; Eurip. Ion, 21i5). The island of
acquitted. When Attica was threatened with Prochyte, near Sicily, was believed to rest upon his
invasion by the Persians under Datis and Arta- body. (Sil. Ital. xii. 147.)
phernes, Miltiades was chosen one of the ten 3. A son of Aeolus, king of Aeolis, and father
generals. According to Pausanias (iii. 12. ~ 7), it of Hippotes. (Diod. iv. 67.)
was by his advice that the Persian heralds who 4. A son of Amycus and Theano, was born in
had come to demand earth and water were put to the same night as Paris. He was a companion of
death.' When the Athenians advanced against the Aeneas, and slain by Mezentius. (Virg. Aen. x.
Persians, Miltiades by his arguments induced the 702, &c.)
polemarch Callimachus to give the casting vote in' 5. A Bebryx, who was slain by Castor during
favour of risking -a battle with the enemy, the the expedition of the Argonauts. (Apollon. Rhod.
opinions of the ten generals being equally divided. ii. 105.) [L. S.]
Miltiades waited till his turn came, and then drew MIMNERMUS (MiWlvepyov), a celebrated elehis army up in battle array on the ever memorable giac poet. There were various accounts as to his
field of Marathon. For an account of the battle birthplace. Some authorities spoke of Colophon,
and of the tactics by which the victory was se- others of Smyrna, others of Astypalaea (it is not
cured the reader is again referred to Herodotus specified which of the' places of that name) as his
(vi. 104, 109, &c.). After the defeat of the'native city. (Suidas, s.v. MlgEpyvos.) He was
Persians Miltiades endeavoured to urge the generally called a Colophonian (Strab. xiv. p. 643);
Athenians to measures of retaliation, and induced but from a fragment of his poem entitled Nanno
them to entrust to him an armament of seventy it appears that he was descended from those
ships, without knowing the purpose for which they Colophonians who reconquered Smyrna from the
were designed. He proceeded to attack the island Aeolians (Strab. xiv. p. 634), and that, strictly
of Paros, for the purpose of gratifying a private speaking, Smyrna was his birthplace. Mimnermus
enmity. His attacks, however, were unsuccessful; flourished from about B. c. 634 to the age of the