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Up to this time the cities of the Chersonese had been under the
government of Miltiades, the son of Cimon, and grandson of
Stesagoras, to whom they had descended from Miltiades, the son of
Cypselus, who obtained possession of them in the following manner.
The Dolonci, a Thracian tribe, to whom the Chersonese at that time
belonged, being harassed by a war in which they were engaged with the
Apsinthians, sent their princes to Delphi to consult the oracle about
the matter. The reply of the Pythoness bade them "take back with
them as a colonist into their country the man who should first offer
them hospitality after they quitted the temple." The Dolonci,
following the Sacred Road, passed through the regions of Phocis and
Boeotia; after which, as still no one invited them in, they turned
aside, and travelled to Athens.
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