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He now no sooner heard that the Phoenicians were attacking Tenedos
than he loaded five triremes with his goods and chattels, and set sail
for Athens. Cardia was the point from which he took his departure;
and as he sailed down the gulf of Melas, along the shore of the
Chersonese, he came suddenly upon the whole Phoenician fleet.
However he himself escaped, with four of his vessels, and got into
Imbrus, one trireme only falling into the hands of his pursuers.
This vessel was under the command of his eldest son Metiochus, whose
mother was not the daughter of the Thracian king Olorus, but a
different woman. Metiochus and his ship were taken; and when the
Phoenicians found out that he was a son of Miltiades they resolved to
convey him to the king, expecting thereby to rise high in the royal
favour. For they remembered that it was Miltiades who counselled the
Ionians to hearken when the Scyths prayed them to break up the bridge
and return home. Darius, however, when the Phoenicians brought
Metiochus into his presence, was so far from doing him any hurt, that
he loaded him with benefits. He gave him a house and estate, and also
a Persian wife, by whom there were children born to him who were
accounted Persians. As for Miltiades himself, from Imbrus he made
his way in safety to Athens.
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