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Miltiades

NOUN
  1. Athenian general who defeated the Persians at Marathon (540-489)

How To Use Miltiades In A Sentence

  • Miltiades had personal experience from the Persian army and knew its weaknesses.
  • Perhaps Callimachus, the acting polemarch, would have had a different story to tell -- but he died in the fighting, leaving Miltiades to shape post-battle narrative. Asher Smith: 2,500 Years Later, Political Lessons From Marathon
  • It was Miltiades who swayed the Athenian commander-in-chief, Callimachus, to wage battle, and it was Miltiades who had his reputation enhanced the most by the events of Marathon. Asher Smith: 2,500 Years Later, Political Lessons From Marathon
  • The emperor himself gave Pope Miltiades the ancient palace of the Laterani family, and the basilica, the baptistery, and the patriarchate, that is, the Bishop of Rome’s residence -- where the Popes lived until the Avignon period -- were all built there. B16: On the Lateran Basilica
  • To this discourse of Glaucias I added, that the edict which impowered Miltiades to lead forth the Athenians, was made when the tribe Aeantis was chief of the assembly, and that in the battle of Essays and Miscellanies
  • Like Miltiades, he had aroused the suspicion of his people that he aimed at supreme power.
  • Like Miltiades, he had aroused the suspicion of his people that he aimed at supreme power.
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