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Miltiades son of Cimon took possession of Lemnos in this way: When the Pelasgians1 were driven out of Attica by the Athenians, whether justly or unjustly I cannot say, beyond what is told; namely, that Hecataeus the son of Hegesandrus declares in his history that the act was unjust;

1 The Pelasgians were driven into Attica by the Boeotian immigration, about sixty years after the Trojan war according to legend.

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