enrich them. Such a
promise, from the lips of the recent victor of Marathon, was
sufficient, and the armament was granted; no man except Miltiades
knowing what was its destination. He sailed immediately to the
island of Paros, laid siege to the town, and sent in a herald to
require from the inhabitants a contribution of one hundred talents,
on pain of entire destruction. His pretence for this attack was,
that the Parians had furnished a trireme to Datis for the Persian
fleet at Marathon; but his real motive (so Herodotus assures us)
was vindictive animosity against a Parian citizen named Lysagoras,
who had exasperated the Persian general Hydarnes against him. The
Parians amused him at first with evasions, until they had procured
a little delay to repair the defective portions of their wall,
after which they set him at defiance; and Miltiades in vain
prosecuted hostilities against them for the space of twenty-six
days: he ravaged the island, but his attacks made no impression on
the town. Beginning to despair of success in his military
operations, he entered into some negotiation (such at least was the
tale of the Parians themselves,) with a Parian woman named Timo,
priestess or attendant in the temple of Demeter (Ceres) near the
town-gates; this woman, promising to reveal to him a secret which
would place Paros in his power, induced him to visit by night a
temple to which no male person was admissible. He leaped the
exterior fence and approached the sanctuary; but on coming near was
seized with a panic terror and ran away, almost out of his senses;
on leaping the same fence to get back, he strained or bruised his
thigh badly, and became utterly disabled. In this melancholy state
he was placed on ship-board; the siege being raised, and the whole
armament returning to Athens."

"Vehement was the indignation both of the armament and the
remaining Athenians against Miltiades on his return; and
Zanthippus, father of the great Perikles, became the spokesman of
this feeling. He impeached Miltiades before the popular judicature
as having been guilty of deceiving the people, and so having
deserved the penalty of death. The accused himself, disabled by his
injured thigh, which even began to show symptoms of gangrene, was
unable to stand or to say a wor