MILON, a famous wrestler of antiquity, the son of Diotimus, was born at Crotona. He is chiefly remarkable for his bodily strength, by means of which he obtained the crown for wrestling six times at Olympia, and as many times at the Pythian games. He flourished towards the end of the sixth century B.C.; and in 511 B.C. headed his countrymen in a successful battle against the Sybarites. Many stories are related of his strength, of which the most remarkable are, his supporting a falling house till its inhabitants escaped, and his carrying a heifer on his shoulders round the Olympic race-course. After he had become weakened by age, he is said to have seen one day in a forest a tree half split by wedges, and as he endeavoured to tear it asunder with his hands, the wedges fell out, and he being caught by the hands in the tree was devoured by wild beasts.