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He landed, and required the Parians to pay him a hundred talents, and when they refused he besieged the city, until a woman named Timo, who was priestess at a temple of Ceres near the gates, promised to tell him a way of taking the city if he would meet her at night in the temple, where no man was allowed to enter.
The letter is still extant in Stoddard's own hand, dated July 20, 1744, in which Capt. William Williams is ordered by him "to erect as soon as may be" a block-house sixty feet square "about five miles and a half from Hugh Morrison's house in Colrain in or near the line run last week under the direction of Col. Timo. Dwight by our order."
Miltiades marches against Paros. Its resistance. Miltiades is discouraged. The captive priestess. Miltiades's interview with the priestess. Her instructions. Miltiades attempts to enter the temple of Ceres. He dislocates a limb. Miltiades returns to Athens. He is impeached. Miltiades is condemned. He dies of his wound. The fine paid. Proposed punishment of Timo. Timo saved by the Delphic oracle.
The account states that the act, whatever it was, that Timo had directed him to perform, instead of being, as he supposed, a means of propitiating the favor of the divinity, was sacrilegious and impious; and Miltiades, as he approached the temple, was struck suddenly with a mysterious and dreadful horror of mind, which wholly overwhelmed him.
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