ich the Dolonkians asked of him:.

36, and as the Pythian prophetess also bade him do so, Miltiades the
son of Kypselos, who had before this been victor at Olympia with a
four-horse chariot, now taking with him of the Athenians everyone who
desired to share in the expedition, sailed with the Dolonkians and took
possession of the land: and they who had invited him to come to them
made him despot over them. First then he made a wall across the isthmus
of the Chersonese from the city of Cardia to Pactye, in order that the
Apsinthians might not be able to invade the land and do them damage.
Now the number of furlongs 21 across the isthmus at this place
is six-and-thirty, and from this isthmus the Chersonese within is
altogether four hundred and twenty furlongs in length..

37. Having made a wall then across the neck of the Chersonese and having
in this manner repelled the Apsinthians, Miltiades made war upon the
people of Lampsacos first of all others; and the people of Lampsacos
laid an ambush and took him prisoner. Now Miltiades had come to be a
friend 22 of Croesus the Lydian; and Croesus accordingly, being informed
of this event, sent and commanded the people of Lampsacos to let
Miltiades go; otherwise he threatened to destroy them utterly like a
pine-tree. 23 Then when the people of Lampsacos were perplexed in their
counsels as to what that saying should mean with which Croesus had
threatened them, namely that he would destroy them utterly like a
pine-tree, at length one of the elder men with difficulty perceived the
truth, and said that a pine alone of all trees when it has been cut
down does not put forth any further growth but perishes, being utterly
destroyed. The people of Lampsacos therefore fearing Croesus loosed
Miltiades and let him go..

38. He then escaped by means of Croesus, but afterwards he brought his
life to an end leaving no son to succeed him, but passing over his rule
and his possessions to Stesagoras, who was the son of Kimon, his brother
on the mother's side: 24 and the people of the Chersonese still offer
sacrifices to him after his death as it is usual to do to a founder, and
hold in his honour a contest of horse-races and athletic exercises, in
which none of the men of Lampsacos are allowed to contend. After this
there was war with those of Lampsacos; and it happened to Stesagoras
also that he died without leaving a son, having been struck on the head
with an axe in the City Hall by a man who