...s they have never been satisfied with their continual encroachments. When Croesus sent them presents they were the first to become friends with the barbarian, after he had reduced the other Greeks of Asia Minor and all the Dorians who live on the Carian mainland. They point out too that when the Phocian leaders had seized the temple at Delphi, the kings and every Spartan of repute privately, and the board ...