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After the people of Cirrha had been besieged for a long time because they had
attempted to plunder the oracle,Delphi. About 590 B.C. some
of the Greeks returned to their native cities, but others of them inquired of the Pythian
priestess and received the following response:
Ye shall not seize and lay in ruins the tower
Of yonder city, before the plashing wave
Of dark-eyed Amphitrite inundates
My sacred precinct, here on these holy cliffs.
Const. Exc. 4, p. 286.
Croesus, the king of the Lydians, under the
guise of sending to Delphi, dispatched Eurybatus of
Ephesus to the Peloponnesus, having given him money with which to recruit as many mercenaries as
he could from among the Greeks. But this agent of Croesus went over to Cyrus the Persian and
revealed everything to him. Consequently the wickedness of Eurybatus became a by-word among the
Greeks, and to this day whenever a man wishes to cast another's knavery in his teeth he calls
him a Eurybatus.Const. Exc. 2 (1), p. 220.
Although evil men may avoid for the moment
punishment at the hands of those whom they have wronged, yet the evil report of them is
preserved for all time and punishes them so far as possible even after death. We are told that Croesus, on the eve of
his war with Cyrus, dispatched ambassadors to Delphi to inquire by what means it would be possible for his sonHe was dumb from birth. to speak; and that the Pythian
priestess replied:
O thou of Lydian stock, o'er many king,
Thou great fool Croesus, never wish to hear
Within thy halls the much-desired sound
Of thy son speaking. Better far for thee
That he remain apart; for the first words
He speaks shall be upon a luckless day.
Hdt. 1.85 recounts
that the boy first spoke on the day the Persians took Sardis.
A man should bear good fortune
with moderation and not put his trust in the successes such as fall to human beings, since they
can take a great shift with a