When the Lydians came to the places where they
were sent, they presented the offerings, and inquired of the oracles, in
these words: “Croesus, king of Lydia [27.516,38.683] (region
(general)), Turkey, Asia Lydia and other nations, believing that here are the only true places of
divination among men, endows you with such gifts as your wisdom deserves.
And now he asks you whether he is to send an army against the Persians, and whether he is to add an army of
allies.”
Such was their inquiry; and the judgment given to Croesus by each of the two oracles was the same: namely, that if
he should send an army against the Persians he
would destroy a great empire. And they advised him to discover the mightiest
of the Greeks and make them his friends.