Histories

His first act was to wall off the isthmus of the Gelibolu Yarimadasi (peninsula), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, AsiaChersonese from the city of Cardia across to Pactye,[*](Across the isthmus of the peninsula of Gallipoli [26.6833,40.4167] (Perseus)Gallipoli, near Bulair; a distance of about four and a half miles.) so that the Apsinthians would not be able to harm them by invading their land. The isthmus is thirty-six stadia across, and to the south of the isthmus the Gelibolu Yarimadasi (peninsula), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, AsiaChersonese is four hundred and twenty stadia in length.

After Miltiades had pushed away the Apsinthians by walling off the neck of the Gelibolu Yarimadasi (peninsula), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, AsiaChersonese, he made war first on the people of +Lapseki [26.7,40.366] (inhabited place), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Lampsacus, but the Lampsacenes laid an ambush and took him prisoner. However, Miltiades stood high in the opinion of Croesus the Lydian, and when Croesus heard what had happened, he sent to the Lampsacenes and commanded them to release Miltiades. If they did not do so, he threatened to cut them down like a pine tree.