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When intelligence of this reached the Athenians, they likewise
marched their troops to Marathon, and there stood on the defensive,
having at their head ten generals, of whom one was Miltiades.
Now this man's father, Cimon, the son of Stesagoras, was banished
from Athens by Pisistratus, the son of Hippocrates. In his
banishment it was his fortune to win the four-horse chariot-race at
Olympia, whereby he gained the very same honour which had before been
carried off by Miltiades, his half-brother on the mother's side.
At the next Olympiad he won the prize again with the same mares; upon
which he caused Pisistratus to be proclaimed the winner, having made
an agreement with him that on yielding him this honour he should be
allowed to come back to his country. Afterwards, still with the same
mares, he won the prize a third time; whereupon he was put to death by
the sons of Pisistratus, whose father was no longer living. They set
men to lie in wait for him secretly; and these men slew him near the
government-house in the night-time. He was buried outside the city,
beyond what is called the Valley Road; and right opposite his tomb
were buried the mares which had won the three prizes. The same success
had likewise been achieved once previously, to wit, by the mares of
Evagoras the Lacedaemonian, but never except by them. At the time
of Cimon's death Stesagoras, the elder of his two sons, was in the
Chersonese, where he lived with Miltiades his uncle; the younger,
who was called Miltiades after the founder of the Chersonesite
colony, was with his father in Athens.
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