Histories

He put his own daughter in a brothel, instructing her to accept all alike and, before having intercourse, to make each tell her the shrewdest and most impious thing he had done in his life; whoever told her the story of the thief, she was to seize and not let get out.

The girl did as her father told her, and the thief, learning why she was doing this, did as follows, wanting to get the better of the king by craft.