The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Miltiades, Tyrant of the Thracian Chersonese (c. 550 BC - 489 BC)

Thracian king who was a rebellious vassal to Darius I of Persia. He is remembered as the hero of the Battle of Marathon. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198606413.001.0001/acref-9780198606413-e-4193?rskey=EFf9nP&result=1 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miltiades References in Documents:
Musaeum Clausum (1684)

25. Miltiades, who overthrew the Persians at the Battel of Marathon and delivered Greece, looking out of a Prison Grate in207Tract XIII. Bibliotheca Absconditain Athens, wherein he died, with this Inscription, Non hoc terribiles Cymbri non Britones unquam, Sauromatæve truces aut immanes Agathyrsi.