rians however
did not intend to come forth against them and fight; but their endeavour
was if possible to hold out by defending their walls, since the counsel
prevailed not to leave the city. Then a violent assault was made upon
the wall, and for six days there fell many on both sides; but on the
seventh day Euphorbos the son of Alkimachos and Philagros the son
of Kyneos, men of repute among the citizens, gave up the city to the
Persians. These having entered the city plundered and set fire to the
temples in retribution for the temples which were burned at Sardis, and
also reduced the people to slavery according to the commands of Dareios.

102. Having got Eretria into their power, they stayed a few days and
then sailed for the land of Attica, pressing on 92 hard and supposing
that the Athenians would do the same as the Eretrians had done. And
since Marathon was the most convenient place in Attica for horsemen
to act and was also very near to Eretria, therefore Hippias the son of
Peisistratos was guiding them thither..

103. When the Athenians had information of this, they too went to
Marathon to the rescue of their land; and they were led by ten generals,
of whom the tenth was Miltiades, whose father Kimon of Stesagoras had
been compelled to go into exile from Athens because of Peisistratos the
son of Hippocrates: and while he was in exile it was his fortune to win
a victory at the Olympic games with a four-horse chariot, wherein, as
it happened, he did the same thing as his half-brother Miltiades 93
had done, who had the same mother as he. Then afterwards in the next
succeeding Olympic games he gained a victory with the same mares and
allowed Peisistratos to be proclaimed as victor; and having resigned to
him the victory he returned to his own native land under an agreement
for peace. Then after he had won with the same mares at another Olympic
festival, it was his hap to be slain by the sons of Peisistratos,
Peisistratos himself being no longer alive. These killed him near the
City Hall, having set men to lie in wait for him by night; and the
burial-place of Kimon is in the outskirts of the city, on the other side
of the road which is called the way through Coile, and just opposite him
those mares are buried which won in three Olympic games. This same
thing was done also by the mares belonging to Euagoras the Laconian,
but besides these by none others. Now the elder of the sons of Kimon,
Stesagoras, was at that time