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 the vessels equipped. Then Miltiades, having received the army, sailed to Faros; for he was hostile to the Parians on account of one Lysagoras, who had formerly made an accusation against him. When he had arrived at the island, he drove back the Parians within their walls, and blockaded them: and having sent a herald to the city demanded a hundred talents, saying, that unless they gave them to him he would not withdraw his army till he had taken the city by storm. But the Parians paid attention in every way to the defence of (lit. that they might defend) the city. To which end they both planned other (devices) and wherever a part of the wall seemed easier (than the rest) to be taken by storm, there they proceeded to build it by night, twice as high as it was before.

206.Now they relate that a captive woman, whose name was Timo, and who was the attendant of the temple of the goddesses below the earth, came to a conference with Miltiades, who was in doubt as to the result of the enterprise That she, after coming into the presence of Miltiades, advised him to do whatever she pointed out to him, if he valued the taking of Paros highly. That Miltiades then, after heanng the advice of this woman, betook himself to a mound which was in front of the city, and crossed a wall drawn round the temple of Ceres, since he was unable to open the gate; that he then approached the very temple of the goddess. But when he was at the gate that he returned by the same way as he came, being seized with a sudden panic, and dislocated his thigh in jumping down from the walL

207.Accordingly Miltiades sailed back without either bringing riches for the Athenians or subduing Paros. But the Parians on being freed from the blockade, when they had understood that &e attendant of the goddess had pointed out to Miltiades what ought to be done, desired to take vengeance (on her) for this reason. Therefore they sent ambassadors to Delphi to consult the oracle whether they should visit with the heaviest (lit. last) punishment the attendant of the goddesses