Note 749 — Chapter V · Lydia
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“He is dedicating golden bricks to the Pythian as payment for his oracles,” Lucian, Charon, II; Hdt. I. 50 f.; “we may suppose that the liberality of Croesus was intended to secure the Lacedaemonian alliance through Delphic influence,” How and Wells, Hdt. I. 53 (doubtless in view of Xen. Cyr. VI. 2. 11 (news is brought to Cyrus) “that Croesus had sent to Sparta about an alliance”); μέγιστα θνατῶν ἐς ἀγαθέαν ἀνέπεμψε Πυθώ (Κροῖσος), Bacchyl. III. 61–62.