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Delphi (Greece) (search for this): book 9, chapter 33
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
Sardis (Turkey) (search for this): book 9, chapter 33