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 864 HISTORY OF GREECE. 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, 1 was vindictive animosity against a Parian citizen named Lysagoras, who had exasperated the Persian ga- eral 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 upon the town. 2 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, 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 of the remaining Athenians against Miltiades on his return ; 3 and 1 Herodot. vi, 132. CTTACC e~l Hupov, Trpnfyaaiv E%UV u$ ol Hupioi v rporepoi arparevofiEvoi rpifipei ef 'M.apa'&ui'a ufia r> flfpaij. TOVTO pev Jj) irpocxqfia TOV Aiiyov rjv urup riva Kal lyKorov fl%e rolai Tlaplotai 6ia AvoayopEO. ~bv Tiaieu, tovra yivof TLuptov, diafiaAuvra fj.iv irpde 'Ydupvta .vv Iepa7]v. account of this expedition in several points different from Herodotus, which latter I here follow. The authority of Herodotus is preferable in every respect ; the more so, since Ephorns gives his narrative as a sort of xplanation of the peculiar phrase uva-xapid&Lv. Explanatory narratives of that sort are usually little worthy of attention. 'Herodot. vi, 136. 'Aftjjvaloi 6e IK Ildpov TAt^Tiudea a^ovoarf/aavra ivlfov EV arofiaai, ol re <I?.?.oi, oi fiuTiiara 'tLiivdncr.ot 6 '' kptypovif' Jf
 * Ephorus (Fragm. 107, cd. Didot; ap. Stephan. Byz. v, Ilapof) gave an