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This Miltiades, the son of Cimon, had not been long in the country
when a calamity befell him yet more grievous than those in which he was
now involved: for three years earlier he had had to fly before an
incursion of the Scyths. These nomads, angered by the attack of
Darius, collected in a body and marched as far as the Chersonese.
Miltiades did not await their coming, but fled, and remained away
until the Scyths retired, when the Dolonci sent and fetched him
back. All this happened three years before the events which befell
Miltiades at the present time.
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