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70.3
but the Samians themselves say that the Lacedaemonians who were bringing the bowl, coming too late, and learning that Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus) Sardis and Croesus were taken, sold it in Nisos Samos [26.8,37.75] (island), Samos, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Samos to certain private men, who set it up in the the temple of Hera. And it may be that the sellers of the bowl, when they returned to Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta , said that they had been robbed of it by the Samians. Such are the tales about the bowl.
71.1
Croesus, mistaking the meaning of the oracle, invaded Cappadocia [36,38.5] (region (general)), Turkey, Asia Cappadocia , expecting to destroy Cyrus and the Persian power.
71.2
But while he was preparing to march against the Persians, a certain Lydian, who was already held to be a wise man, and who, from the advice which he now gave, won a great name among the Lydians, advised him as follows (his name was Sandanis): “O King, you are getting ready to march against men who wear trousers of leather and whose complete wardrobe is of leather, and who eat not what they like but what they have; for their land is stony.
