10.27.2Consequently, he went on to say, if they would return the kingdom to him, he would forgive them for this guilty act note and for the campaign they had made against Sardis; but if they opposed his demand, they would suffer a worse fate than had the Eretrians. note
10.27.3Miltiades, voicing the decision reached by the ten generals, replied that according to the statement of the envoys it was more appropriate for the Athenians to hold the mastery over the empire of the Medes than for Datis to hold it over the state of the Athenians; for it was a man of Athens who had established the kingdom of the Medes, whereas no man of Median race had ever controlled Athens. Datis, on hearing this reply, made ready for battle.Const. Exc. 4, pp. 298-301.
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MILESTONE ED="P" UNIT="para">Hippocrates, the tyrant of Gela, after his victory over the Syracusans, note pitched his camp in the temple area of Zeus. And he seized the person of the priest of the temple and certain Syracusans who were in the act of taking down the golden dedications and removing in particular the robe of the statue of Zeus in the making of which a large amount of gold had been used.
10.28.2And after sternly rebuking them as despoilers of the temple, he ordered them to return to the city, but he himself did not touch the dedications, since he was intent upon gaining a good name and he thought not only that one who had commenced a war of such magnitude should commit no sin against the deity, but also that he would set the commons at variance with the administrators of the affairs of Syracuse, because men would think the latter were ruling the state to their own advantage and not to that of all the people nor on the principle of equality.
10.28.3Theron note of Acragas in birth and wealth, as well as in the humanity he displayed towards the commons, far surpassed not only his fellow citizens but also the other Sicilian Greeks.Const. Exc. 2 (1), p. 227.
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10.29.1
Gelon of Syracuse note cried out in his sleep, for he was dreaming that he had been struck by lightning, and his dog, when he noticed that he was crying out immoderately, did not stop barking until he awakened him. Gelon was also once saved from death by a wolf. As a boy he was seated in a school and a wolf came and snatched away the tablet he was using. And while he was chasing after the wolf itself and his tablet too, the school was shaken by an earthquake and crashed down from its very foundations, killing every one of the boys together with the teacher. Historians, like Timaeus, Dionysius, Diodorus, and also Dio, celebrate the number of the boys, which amounted to more than one hundred. The precise number I do not know.Tzetzes, Hist.
4. 266-278.
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10.30.1
Cimon, note the son of Miltiades, when his father had died in the state prison because he was unable to pay in full the fine, note in order that he might receive his father's body for burial, delivered himself up to prison and assumed the debt.
10.30.2Cimon, who was ambitious to take part in the conduct of the state, at a later time became an able general and performed glorious deeds by virtue of his personal bravery.Const. Exc. 2 (1), pp. 227-228.
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10.31.1
Cimon, as certain writers say, was the son of Miltiades, but according to others his father was known as Stesagoras. note And he had a son Callias by Isodice. note And this Cimon was married to his own sister Elpinice note as Ptolemy was at a later time to Berenice, note and Zeus to Hera before them, and as the Persians do at the present time. And Callias pays a fine of fifty talents, in order that his father Cimon may not suffer punishment because of his disgraceful marriage, that, namely, of brother with sister. The number of those who write about this it would be a long task for me to recount; for the multitude of those who have written about it is boundless, such as the comic poets and orators and Diodorus and others.Tzetzes, Hist.
1. 582-593.
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