...ill his master, though he was one of the guard of the Heraclidae, and who took to himself the royal state of that master, to which he had no right. And it was the wish of Loxias that the evil lot of Sardis fall in the lifetime of Croesus' sons, not in his own; but he could not deflect the Fates. Yet as far as they gave in, he did accomplish his wish and favor Croesus: for he delayed the taking of Sard...