Note 711 — Chapter V · Lydia
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Note that Sadyattes (ap. Suid. (s.v. Κροῖσος), Alyattes) bears a royal name, and that he is almost certainly the rival ἀντιστασιώτης of Croesus of Hdt. I. 92. A var. lect. in Nic. Dam. has ἔπαρχος (governor) instead of ἔμπορος (merchant). Sadyattes may therefore well have been a great noble: but that is no reason, pace Gelzer, Rhein. Mus. XXXV. 520, for not assigning the chief rôle to his wealth.