§6.137.1Λῆμνον δὲ Μιλτιάδης ὁ Κίμωνος ὧδε ἔσχε.
Miltiades the son of Cimon gained possession of Lemnos in the following manner.
Πελασγοὶ ἐπείτε ἐκ τῆς Ἀττικῆς ὑπὸ Ἀθηναίων ἐξεβλήθησαν, εἴτε ὦν δὴ δικαίως εἴτε ἀδίκως· τοῦτο γὰρ οὐκ ἔχω φράσαι, πλὴν τὰ λεγόμενα, ὅτι Ἑκαταῖος μὲν ὁ Ἡγησάνδρου ἔφησε ἐν τοῖσι λόγοισι λέγων ἀδίκως· §6.137.2ἐπείτε γὰρ ἰδεῖν τοὺς Ἀθηναίους τὴν χώρην, τὴν σφίσι αὐτοῖσι ὑπὸ τὸν Ὑμησσὸν ἐοῦσαν ἔδοσαν Πελασγοῖσι οἰκῆσαι μισθὸν τοῦ τείχεος τοῦ περὶ τὴν ἀκρόπολιν κοτὲ ἐληλαμένου, ταύτην ὡς ἰδεῖν τοὺς Ἀθηναίους ἐξεργασμένην εὖ, τὴν πρότερον εἶναι κακήν τε καὶ τοῦ μηδενὸς ἀξίην, λαβεῖν φθόνον τε καὶ ἵμερον τῆς γῆς, καὶ οὕτω ἐξελαύνειν αὐτοὺς οὐδεμίαν ἄλλην πρόφασιν προϊσχομένους τοὺς Ἀθηναίους.
When the Pelasgians were driven out of Attica by the Athenians, whether indeed justly or unjustly—for I cannot say this, except for what is said, namely that Hecataeus the son of Hegesander declared in his history, saying that it was unjustly; for he said that when the Athenians saw that the land, which they themselves had given to the Pelasgians to dwell in under Mount Hymettus as a reward for the wall that had once been built around the Acropolis, when the Athenians, I say, saw this land well cultivated, which had previously been wretched and worth nothing, they were seized with envy and a longing for the land, and thus the Athenians drove them out, presenting no other pretext.
§6.137.3ὡς δὲ αὐτοὶ Ἀθηναῖοι λέγουσι, δικαίως ἐξελάσαι.
But as the Athenians themselves say, they drove them out justly.
κατοικημένους γὰρ τοὺς Πελασγοὺς ὑπὸ τῷ Ὑμησσῷ, ἐνθεῦτεν ὁρμωμένους ἀδικέειν τάδε.
For when the Pelasgians were settled under Hymettus, they made it their base to commit the following wrongs.
φοιτᾶν γὰρ αἰεὶ τὰς σφετέρας θυγατέρας τε καὶ τοὺς παῖδας ἐπʼ ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἐννεάκρουνον· οὐ γὰρ εἶναι τοῦτον τὸν χρόνον σφίσι κω οὐδὲ τοῖσι ἄλλοισι Ἕλλησι οἰκέτας· ὅκως δὲ ἔλθοιεν αὗται, τοὺς Πελασγοὺς ὑπὸ ὕβριός τε καὶ ὀλιγωρίης βιᾶσθαι σφέας.
Their own daughters and sons used to go regularly to the Enneacrounos for water (for at that time neither they nor the other Greeks had domestic servants); and whenever they came, the Pelasgians out of insolence and contempt would outrage them.
καὶ ταῦτα μέντοι σφι οὐκ ἀποχρᾶν ποιέειν, ἀλλὰ τέλος καὶ ἐπιβουλεύοντας ἐπιχείρησιν φανῆναι ἐπʼ αὐτοφώρῳ.
And even this did not suffice them to do, but at last they were even caught in the act of plotting an attack.
§6.137.4ἑωυτοὺς δὲ γενέσθαι τοσούτῳ ἐκείνων ἄνδρας ἀμείνονας, ὅσῳ, παρεὸν ἑωυτοῖσι ἀποκτεῖναι τοὺς Πελασγούς, ἐπεί σφεας ἔλαβον ἐπιβουλεύοντας, οὐκ ἐθελῆσαι, ἀλλά σφι προειπεῖν ἐκ τῆς γῆς ἐξιέναι.
But the Athenians showed themselves to be so much better men than them, in that, when they might have killed the Pelasgians, having caught them plotting, they were unwilling to do so, but ordered them to depart from the land.
τοὺς δὲ οὕτω δὴ ἐκχωρήσαντας ἄλλα τε σχεῖν χωρία καὶ δὴ καὶ Λῆμνον.
Those who thus departed gained possession of other places and indeed of Lemnos.
ἐκεῖνα μὲν δὴ Ἑκαταῖος ἔλεξε, ταῦτα δὲ Ἀθηναῖοι λέγουσι.
Those are the things that Hecataeus said, and these are what the Athenians say.