Alyattes

"Periander, son of Cypselus, had sent three hundred youths of the noblest young men of the Corcyraeans to Alyattes, at Sardis; for the purpose of emasculation."

Satyricon 2007

Periander tyrant of Corinth sent three hundred boys, sons to the principal men of Corcyra, to King Alyattes, to be gelt.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Amasis drink the sea would have been better fitted by such a smart reprimand as Pittacus gave Alyattes, who sent an imperious letter to the Lesbians.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Crœsus the son of Alyattes king of the Lydians chanced then to be doing: and whatever the Oracles severally should prophesy, this they should cause to be written down44 and bear it back to him.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

With regard then to the war waged by Alyattes with the Milesians and

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Of marvels to be recorded the land of Lydia has no great store as compared with other lands,113 excepting the gold-dust which is carried down from Tmolos; but one work it has to show which is larger far than any other except only those in Egypt and Babylon: for there is there the sepulchral monument of Alyattes the father of

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Alyattes the Lydian, when he had thus waged war against the

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Periander the son of Kypselos had despatched three hundred sons of the chief men of Corcyra to Alyattes at Sardis to be made eunuchs; and when the

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

After this, seeing that Alyattes would not give up the Scythians when Kyaxares demanded them, there had arisen war between the Lydians and the

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Alyattes, who thought that there was a great famine in Miletos and that the people had been worn down to the extreme of misery, heard from the herald, when he returned from Miletos, the opposite to that which he himself supposed.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003