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the Pythian games, and fix at the Olympian. He prefent- 
ed himfelf a feventh time; but no one had the courage or 
boldnefs to enter the lifts againft him. He was one of 
the dil'ciples of Pythagoras; and to his uncommon 
ftrength, it is faid, the learned preceptor and his pupils 
owed their life. The pillar which fupported the roof of 
the fchool fuddenly gave way; but Milo fupported the 
whole weight of the building, and gave the philofopher 
and his auditors time to efcape. In his old age, Milo at¬ 
tempted to pull up a tree by the roots, and break it. He 
partly effected it; but his ftrength being gradually ex- 
haufted, the tree when half cleft re-united, and his hands 
remained pinched in the body of the tree. He was then 
alone; and, being unable to dilentangle himfelf, he was 
devoured by the wild beafts of the place, about 500 years 
before the Chriftian era. 
MI'LO (T. Annius), a native of Lanuvium, who at¬ 
tempted to obtain the confullhip at Rome by intrigue 
and feditious tumults. Clodius the tribune oppofed his 
views; yet Milo would have fucceeded but for the fol¬ 
lowing event: As he was going into the country, at¬ 
tended by his wife and a numerous retinue of gladiators 
and fervants, he met on the Appian road his enemy Clo¬ 
dius, who was returning to Rome with three of his friends 
and fome domellics completely armed. A quarrel arofe 
between the fervants. Milo fupported his attendants, 
and the difpute became general. Clodius received many 
fevere wounds, and was obliged to retire to a neighbour¬ 
ing cottage. Milo purfued his enemy in his retreat, and 
ordered his fervants to difpatch him. The body of the 
murdered tribune was carried to Rome, and expofed to 
public view. The enemies of Milo inveighed bitterly 
againft the violence and barbarity with which the facred 
perfon of a tribune had been treated. Cicero undertook 
the defence of Milo; but the continual clamours of the 
friends of Clodius, and the fight of an armed foldiery, 
which furrounded the feat of judgment, fo terrified the 
orator, that he forgot the greateft part of his arguments, 
and the defence he made was weak and injudicious. Milo 
was condemned, and banilhed to Mafiilia. Cicero foon 
after fent his exiled friend a copy of the oration which 
he had prepared for his defence, in the form in which we 
have it now ; and Milo, after he had read it, exclaimed, 
“ O Cicero, hadft thou fpoken before my accufers in thefe 
terms, Milo would not be now eating figs at Marfeilles.” 
MI'LO, anciently Melos, an illand in the Grecian 
Archipelago. This ifland was long rich and populous, 
and in early antiquity enjoyed perfect freedom. The 
Athenians, unable to bring the people of Melos to de¬ 
clare in their favour in the Peloponnelian war, made a 
defcent upon their coafts, and laid all wafte before them 
with fire and fword. Twice did they fail in their enter- 
prii’e; but, returning with more numerous forces, they 
laid fiege to Melos, and, having reduced the befieged to 
furrender at difcretion, put to the fword every man ca¬ 
pable of bearing arms. They fpared only the women and 
children, whom they carried off into captivity. See the 
article Greece, vol. viii. p. 879. Lylander, the Lacedae¬ 
monian general, having in his turn fubdued the Athe¬ 
nians, obliged them to recall the colony they had fent to 
Melos, and to reftore to the ifland the wretched remains 
of its inhabitants. This ifland loft its liberty, when the 
Romans, afpiring to the empire of the world, conquered 
the whole Archipelago. In the partition of that mo¬ 
narchy, it fell to the eaftern emperors, was afterwards 
governed by its own dukes, and finally was conquered by 
Soliman II. emperor of the Turks. Since that period it 
has groaned beneath Ottoman defpotifm, and is com¬ 
pletely deprived of its importance. The plague, every¬ 
where propagated by the Turks, has cut off the greateft 
part of its inhabitants ; and the deteftable government of 
the Porte, and the opprefflons of the captain pacha, have 
completed its degradation. 
Milo is about fixty miles in circumference; it is di¬ 
vided in its middle, and almoft through its whole breadth, 
by a deep bay; which is one of the fineft harbours in the 
Mediterranean, fufficiently fpacious to contain a fleet, and 
to keep the fliips belonging to it ftieltered from all winds. 
The anchorage is excellent, particularly at the head of 
the gulf and near the eaft coaft ; the bottom has a fine 
fand, and veflels come to anchor there in from twelve to 
eighteen fathoms water. Small craft can approach nearer 
the coaft, and carry out moorings to the rocks of one of 
the grottoes. Another anchorage^more convenient, and 
alfo lefs expofed to the adtion of the winds and the vio¬ 
lence of the fea, lies on the weft coaft, in a cove called 
Patricha. Near this, a high mountain, in the form of a 
fugar-loaf, bears on its fummit a village, called Sifour, 
furrounded by walls, whence it has the name of Cajiroi 
here the pilots for the Archipelago refide. As the air 
here is pure and wliolefome, it is more populous than the 
capital of Milo, and the inhabitants exhibit figns of vi¬ 
gour and health not common in other parts of the ifland. 
It is not improbable that the principal place of the ifle of 
Milo was near the fcite of Sifour, which commands an ex- 
tenfive profpedt; more efpecially as the ancient habita¬ 
tions of the Archipelago are built on eminences the molt 
lofty, and the moft rugged of accefs. Near this place are 
coniiderable ruins, fragments of columns of Parian mar¬ 
ble, and fubterraneous galleries, antique catacombs, 
which furnifli funeral infcriptions, vafes, idols, and me¬ 
dals, and other remains of a confiderable city. The wo¬ 
men of Sifour, or Sefours, employ themfelves in knitting 
cotton ftockings, and making coarfe calicoes. The men 
cultivate the earth, or are mariners. Near this place, on 
the fummit of a hill, is at prefent a church of Caloques, 
built, as Olivier conceives, on the ruins of a temple. 
However, the capital of the ifland is a town of the fame 
name, fituated on a plain formerly not inferior to any 
other of the Archipelago, but now prefenting fcarcely any 
thing but ruins. Scarcely do forty families drag on their 
unfortunate exiftence, with conlumptive afpedfs, in a 
town which reckoned 5000 inhabitants within its walls. 
At the beginning of the laft century, Tournefort difco- 
vered, in 1700, thatthe air of Milo was inialubrious, and 
that the inhabitants were fubjedt to dangerous diforders ; 
but the unwholefomenefs of the air mud have increafed 
very much fince that epoch. In traverfing the ifland to 
the monaftery of St. Marino, Mount St. Elias, the moft 
lofty point in the ifland, and the volcanic mountain of 
Calamo, the country prefehts various traces of its vol¬ 
canic origin. At the diftance of a quarter of a league 
from Milo, alum is formed, which has been mentioned 
both by ancient and modern writers. In the fame grotto 
that furnifties this alum, are alfo found cryftals of gyp- 
fum, but the heat is fuch as not to admit its being exa¬ 
mined for any long time. The baths called Loutra were 
alfo fituated in this quarter. The water is lfrongly 
charged with alum and marine fait. Thefe baths were 
anciently much frequented by Greeks, who repaired hi¬ 
ther from all the Cyclades in order to obtain relief in dif¬ 
orders of the Ikin, as well as in rheumatifm and pally. 
Spacious grottoes occur frequently ; and in thefe are fub¬ 
terraneous caverns, full of turnings and twinings, and 
into which the defcent is fteep and laborious. The cham¬ 
bers which they contain appear to have been formerly 
ufed as habitations and places of concealment. Near the 
fcite of an ancient town, called Clima by the modem 
Greeks, are fepulchres or catacombs, in which, at an un¬ 
known period, the inhabitants of Milo depofited their 
dead. Each of thefe catacombs generally contains feven 
farcophagi, five and a half or fix feet long, and a foot or 
fifteen inches deep, furmounted by an arch and dug in 
the rock. During the laft year, 1816, there has been dis¬ 
covered, as Mr. Salt informs us, a theatre of white marble, 
which appears, from the little that has yet been expofed 
to view, to be in very perfect prefervation. The feats at 
prefent opened are feven in number, beautifully worked 
out of large mafles of the fineft marble, forming the feg- 
ment of a circle, whofe diameter, if complete, would be 
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