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affirm afterward Alyattes Amasis ancient animals Apollo appears army Asia assert Astyages Athenians Athens authority Babylon Bacchus body called Cambyses Candaules Carians celebrated ceremonies Cræsus crocodile Croesus cubits custom Cyaxares Cyrus Darius daughter death Deioces deity Delphi Diodorus Siculus divinity Egypt Egyptians erected esteemed Ethiopian father formerly gods gold Grecian Greece Greeks Gyges Harpagus Helen Hercules herdsman Herodotus Homer honour hundred informed inhabitants Ionians island Jupiter king Lacedæmonians lake Larcher length Libya lived Lydians manner means Medes Memphis mention Milesians Minerva mountains nations never Nile observed occasion opinion oracle Pactyas particular passage Pelasgians Persians person Phocæa Phoenicians Pisistratus Plutarch possessed present priests prince Psammitichus pyramids received reign remarkable replied river sacred sacrifice Sardis says Scythians sent Sesostris Solon soon Sparta stadia stone Strabo temple Thebes thousand tion took vessel Vulcan wife wine woman women