Miltiades

[mil-tahy-uh-deez]

noun

c540–488? b.c., Athenian general.
Melchiades.

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Historical Examples of miltiades

The same tale might be repeated about Cimon, Themistocles, Miltiades.
Gorgias
Plato
When you have gained a victory by yourself, Miltiades, then you may ask to triumph so too.
The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch
Plutarch
Thus it was that the Athenians and Miltiades took possession of Lemnos.
The History Of Herodotus
Herodotus
What crime in all this had Miltiades committed against the Athenians?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
Various
Miltiades found that the fame and honor which he had gained at Marathon were gone.
Darius the Great
Jacob Abbott

British Dictionary definitions for miltiades

Miltiades

noun

?540–?489 bc, Athenian general, who defeated the Persians at Marathon (490)

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