(), a name borne by at least three of the family
of the Cimonidae. [See the stemma in the article CIMON.] The family
sprang from Aegina, and traced their descent to Aeacus. In the genealogy of the family given
in the life of Thucydides which bears the name of Marcellinus, mention is made of a Miltiades,
son of Tisander; but it is very questionable whether even the text is correct. The two
following are celebrated:--
1. The son of Cypselus, who was a man of considerable distinction in Athens in the time of
Peisistratus. The Doloncians, a Thracian tribe dwelling in the Chersonesus, being hard pressed
in war by the Absinthians, applied to the Delphic oracle for advice, and were directed to
admit a colony led by the man who should be the first to entertain them after they left the
temple. This was Miltiades, who, eager to escape from the rule of Peisistratus, gladly took
the lead of a colony under the sanction of the oracle, and became tyrant of the Chersonese,
which he fortified by a wall built across its isthmus. In a war with the people of Lampsacus
he was taken prisoner, but was set at liberty on the demand of Croesus. He died without
leaving any children, and his sovereignty passed into the hands of Stesagoras, the son of his
half-brother Cinlon. Sacrifices and games were instituted in his honour, in which no
Lampsacene was suffered to take part. (Milt. i. ]) and
Pausanias (