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 560 MILD MILTON opposed the war of 1812. He entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church in 1814, and in 1816 was called to St. George's church, New York, where he remained till his death. Dr. Milnor's labors were abundant, not only in the discharge of his parish duties, but also in connection with the Bible and tract societies, and other philanthropic and chari- table institutions. He published a few occa- sional sermons and addresses. See " Memoirs of the Life of James Milnor," by the Rev. J. S. Stone, D. D. (8vo, New York, 1848). MILO. See MELOS. MILO, or Milon, a Greek athlete of the latter part of the 6th century B. 0., born in Crotona, Magna Grsecia. His extraordinary physical strength gave him the victory in wrestling six times at Olympia, and as often in the Pythian games. He is said to have carried a four-year- old heifer on his shoulders four times around the Olympic race course, and then to have eat- en the whole of it in one day. In 511 he was appointed to command an army against the Sybarites, and bore an important part in the battle of the Crathis. He was worsted by the agility of his adversary in his seventh Olympic struggle. When enfeebled by age, it is said, he attempted to tear asunder with his hands a forest tree partially split by woodcutters ; he was caught and held fast by the closing of the fissure, and was devoured by wolves. MILO, Titus Annius Papinlanns, a Roman trib- une and demagogue, born at Lanuvium in the early part of the 1st century B. C. In 57 he filled the office of plebeian tribune. At that period Clodius, at the head of a band of desperadoes, controlled the destinies of Kome, burning temples, attacking the houses of pri- vate citizens, shedding the blood of freemen in the streets, dispersing the comitia by violence, and trampling under foot all laws. Milo, who was little better than Clodius, but desirous of retrieving his ruined fortunes by an alliance w.ith the aristocrats, temporarily restored or- der, after which Cicero was recalled from exile. Clodius, who had been the author of Cicero's banishment, assailed his person and property, and would have sacrificed him had not Milo come to his aid. The followers of Milo and Clodius fought daily in the streets. The rival chiefs and their retainers met at Bovilloe, on the Appian way, in January, 52, and in the fray Clodius was slain. Milo was brought to trial, and Cicero, his advocate, was so intimi- dated that he did not venture to deliver the oration he had prepared ; his client was con- victed and went into exile to Massilia, where he remained till 48, when he returned to aid Marcus Caolius in resuscitating the republican party, but was defeated and slain in Lucania. MILTIADES, an Athenian statesman, who flourished at the beginning of the 5th century B. C. He was of a noble family, son of Ci- mon, and nephew of the elder Miltiades, who was prominent in Athens in the time of Pisis- tratus, and was also the founder of a despotism in the Thracian Chersonese. He was sent out about 516 to take possession of his uncle's in- heritance. To secure his position, he impris- oned the chief men by stratagem, employed a force of mercenaries, and married the daugh- ter of a Thracian prince, lie joined Darius Hystaspis on his expedition against the Scy- thians, and remained with the lonians to guard the bridge over the Danube while the Persian army advanced northward. When the appoint- ed time had passed, and notb.ing.had been heard from Darius, he is said to have urged the de- struction of the bridge and the abandonment of the Persians, but to have been overruled by the Ionian leaders, who maintained their own ascendancy by Persian support alone, the feeling of the population being everywhere against them. Had his opinion prevailed, says Grote, he would have inflicted on Persia a more vital blow than the victory of Marathon. He remained in the Chersonese till about 493, with the exception of a brief interval. His only achievement during this period was the conquest of Lemnos and Imbros, which prob- ably took place while the Persians were occu- pied with the Ionic revolt (between 501 and 494). He thus drew upon himself the hostility of Darius, was driven from the Chersonese at the close of the Ionic war, and on his flight to Athens narrowly escaped capture by the Phoe- nician fleet. He was brought to trial by the Athenians for alleged despotism in his admin- istration of the Chersonese, but was honorably acquitted, and his fame as the conqueror of Lemnos secured his election as one of the ten generals at a time when the Persian armament under Datis and Artaphernes was approaching Greece. While the generals were equally di- vided whether to meet the enemy in the field or to defend the city behind its walls, Miltiades persuaded the polemarch Callimachus to give his casting vote in favor of immediate attack, and thus brought on the battle of Marathon. Though the other generals surrendered to him their days of command, it is said that he wait- ed till his own day before he engaged the ene- my, and achieved the most memorable victory in the history of Greece. (See MARATHON.) The admiration of him by his countrymen was now unbounded. At his request, he was in- trusted with an armament of *TO ships, no other man knowing its destination. He sailed against the island of Paros to gratify a private animos- ity, and ravaged the island, but failed to cap- ture the town. Being seized with a panic while visiting a priestess on a superstitious errand, he strained or bruised his thigh by falling and raised the siege. On his return to Athens he was impeached and condemned to pay a penalty of 50 talents, and soon after died of his wound. According to Cornelius Nepos and Plutarch, he was imprisoned after being fined, but this is not stated by Herodotus. The fine was afterward paid by his son Cimon. MILTON, a N. county of Georgia, bounded S.. E. by the Chattahoochee river, and watered by