Miltiades

Miltiades the Athenian, general and sovereign of the Chersonesites of the Hellespont, advised that they do as the Scythians said and set Ionia free.

When the Athenians learned this, they too marched out to Marathon, with ten generals leading them.

The younger was with Cimon at Athens, and he took the name Miltiades from Miltiades the founder of the Chersonese.

Miltiades, who won the battle of Marathon, or yonder man?

If you were asked this question you would all answer, Miltiades.

But when certain men had stirred up trouble and finally caused us to become involved in war with the Lacedaemonians, then, after we had suffered and inflicted many losses, Miltiades, the son of Cimon, who was proxenus of the Lacedaemonians, negotiated with them, and we made a truce for fifty years, and kept it thirteen years.

his father, Miltiades, had been one likewise.

and, in virtue of his being Sparta’s representative at Athens, we recalled Cimon’s son, Miltiades,who had been ostracized and was living in the Chersonese, for the one purpose of sending him to Sparta to make overtures for an armistice.

After this, Xanthippus was at the head of the people, and Miltiades of the notables;

I never heard, in the school of Epicurus, Lycurgus, Solon, Miltiades, Themistocles, Epaminondas named — who are on the lips of all the other philosophers.

that Miltiades, conqueror and subduer of the Persians, when the wounds he had taken full in the breast in that most glorious victory were not yet healed, poured out in the chains of his fellow citizens the life he had saved from the enemy's weapons;

Themistocles used to walk by night in public, because he could not take sleep, and to those who asked he answered that he was roused from sleep by the trophies of Miltiades.

Perceiving this, Miltiades, the general of the Athenians, who conquered the Persians in the battle at Marathon, imitated this manner:

or that the victory at Marathon belonged to Miltiades,—it was the victory of the commonwealth.

if any of you know the sort of house that Themistocles or Miltiades or any of those distinguished men of old lived in, you may observe that it is no grander than the common run of houses.

Take first Themistocles, who won the naval victory at Salamis, Miltiades, who commanded at Marathon, and many others, whose achievements were not on a level with those of our commanders today.

It is said that Aristeides was banished by your ancestors and lived in Aegina till the people recalled him, and that Miltiades and Pericles, being fined thirty and fifty talents respectively, did not try to harangue the people until they had paid in full.

Take Themistocles, who was your general in the sea-fight at Salamis, and Miltiades, who commanded at Marathon, and many more whose good services were far greater than those of our present generals:

For truly, men of Athens, they never robbed themselves of any of their achievements, nor would anyone dream of speaking of Themistocles’ fight at Salamis, but of the Athenians’ fight, nor of Miltiades’ battle at Marathon, but of the Athenians’ battle.

Who made those long and eloquent speeches, and read the decrees of Miltiades and Themistacles and the oath which our young men take in the temple of Aglaurus?

yet in private they were so modest, so careful to obey the spirit of the constitution, that the houses of their famous men, of Aristides or of Miltiades, as any of you can see that knows them, are not a whit more splendid than those of their neighbors.

And Miltiades, the first to conquer the barbarians with the citizens alone, and to cast down the pride of the Persians, which they had formerly held as being mightier than all men—this man, not long afterward, fell into prison at their hands;

Remember the figures who, born after the heroes of old, yet rivalled their deeds of valor, the followers of Miltiades and Themistocles, and those others who, by freeing Greece, brought honor to their country and glory to their lives;

Now the polity as it was in the earlier time was as much better and stronger than that which obtained later as Aristides and Themistocles and Miltiades were better men than Hyperbolus and Cleophon and those who today harangue the people.

Miltiades, the sophist of the churches;