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As the Pythoness backed their request, Miltiades, son of Cypselus
who had already won the four-horse chariot-race at Olympia, left
Athens, taking with him as many of the Athenians as liked to join in
the enterprise, and sailed away with the Dolonci. On his arrival at
the Chersonese, he was made king by those who had invited him. After
this his first act was to build a wall across the neck of the
Chersonese from the city of Cardia to Pactya, to protect the country
from the incursions and ravages of the Apsinthians. The breadth of
the isthmus at this part is thirty-six furlongs, the whole length of
the peninsula within the isthmus being four hundred and twenty furlongs.
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