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Miltiades
[ mil-tahy-uh-deez ]
Miltiades
/ ɪˈٲɪəˌ徱ː /
noun
- Miltiades?540 bc?489 bcMAthenianMILITARY: general ?540–?489 bc , Athenian general, who defeated the Persians at Marathon (490)
Example Sentences
Miltiades Chelmis, the head of the Hoteliers Association of Evia, said that in a country that relied heavily on tourism, the conditions, exacerbated by climate change, were a huge worry.
Helen Miltiades, a professor of gerontology at Fresno State in California, said older adults are struggling in ways younger folks aren’t.
The country’s merchant marine minister, Miltiades Varvitsiotis, said in October that the number of immigrants trying to enter Greece by sea was expected to triple this year, to more than 30,000.
The boy was named Miltiades after the great Athenian general, but would be known as Milton, after the great English poet.
Behind me were stony and not very high hills, ending in the slopes down which Miltiades made his soldiers advance "at a running pace."
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