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Thus died Stesagoras; and upon his death the Pisistratidae fitted
out a trireme, and sent Miltiades, the son of Cimon, and brother of
the deceased, to the Chersonese, that he might undertake the
management of affairs in that quarter. They had already shown him much
favour at Athens, as if, forsooth, they had been no parties to the
death of his father Cimon - a matter whereof I will give an account
in another place. He upon his arrival remained shut up within the
house, pretending to do honour to the memory of his dead brother;
whereupon the chief people of the Chersonese gathered themselves
together from all the cities of the land, and came in a procession to
the place where Miltiades was, to condole with him upon his
misfortune. Miltiades commanded them to be seized and thrown into
prison; after which he made himself master of the Chersonese,
maintained a body of five hundred mercenaries, and married
Hegesipyla, daughter of the Thracian king Olorus.
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