Histories

Miltiades was present but could not speak in his own defense, since his thigh was festering; he was laid before the court on a couch, and his friends spoke for him, often mentioning the fight at Marathon and the conquest of +Lemnos [25.25,39.916] (island), Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Lemnos: how Miltiades had punished the Pelasgians and taken +Lemnos [25.25,39.916] (island), Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Lemnos, delivering it to the Athenians.

The people took his side as far as not condemning him to death, but they fined him fifty talents for his wrongdoing. Miltiades later died of gangrene and rot in his thigh, and the fifty talents were paid by his son Cimon.

Miltiades son of Cimon took possession of +Lemnos [25.25,39.916] (island), Lesvos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Lemnos in this way: When the Pelasgians [*](The Pelasgians were driven into Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica by the Boeotian immigration, about sixty years after the Trojan war according to legend.) were driven out of Attica [23.5,38.83] (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Attica by the Athenians, whether justly or unjustly I cannot say, beyond what is told; namely, that Hecataeus the son of Hegesandrus declares in his history that the act was unjust;