MILLO, a celebrated athlete of Crotona in Italy. His father's name was Diotimus. He early accustomed himself to carry the greatest burdens, and by degrees became a prodigy of strength. It is said that he carried on his shoulders a young bullock, four years old, for above forty yards; and afterwards killed it with one blow of his fist, and eat it up in one day. He was seven times crowned at the Pythian games, and six at the Olympian. He presented himself a seventh time; but no one had the courage or boldness to enter the lists against against him. He was one of the disciples of Pythagoras; and to his uncommon strength, it is said, the learned preceptor and his pupils owed their life: The pillar which supported the roof of the school suddenly gave way; but Milo supported the whole weight of the building, and gave the philosopher and his auditors time to escape. In his old age, Milo attempted to pull up a tree by the roots, and break it. He partly effected it; but his strength being gradually exhausted, 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 disentangle himself, he was devoured by the wild beasts of the place, about 500 years before the Christian era. Milo, T. Annius, a native of Lanuvium, who attempted to obtain the consulship at Rome by intrigue and seditious tumults. Clodius the tribune opposed his views; yet Milo would have succeeded but for the following event: As he was going into the country, attended by his wife and a numerous retinue of gladiators and servants, he met on the Appian road his enemy Clodius, who was returning to Rome with three of his friends and some domestics completely armed.—A quarrel arose between the servants. Milo supported his attendants, and the dispute became general.—Clodius received many severe wounds, and was obliged to retire to a neighbouring cottage. Milo pursued his enemy in his retreat, and ordered his servants to despatch him. The body of the murdered tribune was carried to Rome, and exposed to public view. The enemies of Milo inveighed bitterly against the violence and barbarity with which the sacred person of a tribune had been treated. Cicero undertook the defence of Milo; but the continual clamours of the friends of Clodius, and the sight of an armed soldiery, which surrounded the seat of judgment, so terrified the orator, that he forgot the greatest part of his arguments, and the defence he made was weak and injudicious.—Milo was condemned, and banished to Massilia. Cicero soon after sent 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, hadst thou spoken before my accusers in these terms, Milo would not be now eating figs at Marseilles. The friendship and cordiality of Cicero and Milo were the fruits of long intimacy and familiar intercourse. It was to the successful labours of Milo that the orator was recalled from banishment, and restored to his friends.