Stories of Cr Sus, Cyrus and Babylon from Herodotus

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...have sent again to in-20 quire of the god whether his own empire or the empire of Cyrus were thus signified. 22. "But seeing that he understood not the thing which was said, nor inquired a second time, let him. blame himself. And as to that which Apollo answered 25 him when he inquired of him the last time, speaking of a mule, this also Croesus understood not. For Cyrus was this mule, being born of parents. that were not of the same race, his mother also being of the more noble 6. Fates: The Fates, or Destinies, were goddesses who were believed to preside over the birth, life, and death of human beings. There names were Clotho (klo'-tho), Lachesis (lak'e-sis), and Atropos (at'ro-pos); they are represented as spinning the thread of life from the distaff. Find, if possible, Michael Angelo's picture of the Fates, or Parcae. stock and his father of the worse. For she was a woman of the Medes and the daughter of King Astyages, and he was a Persian and no king, but a servant that married the daughter of his master." 23. This was the answer that the priestess gave to the Lydians; and when Croesus heard it he confessed that he had erred and not the god. 24. In this way did the empire of the Lydians come to an end. These Lydians were the first that found out the coining of gold and silver. Also they were the first traders. And they say of themselves that they first made the games at which they and the Greeks are used to play. Also they declare that in the days when these games were first made by them they colonized the land of Tyrsenia, which is-in Italy. 25. And their story of this matter is this. In the days of Atys the son of Manes there was a sore famine throughout the whole land of Lydia. And for a while the Lydians were instant in prayers to the Gods...