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The nobles, when they heard of this, understood the prediction to mean that the destruction of their power was, in some way or other, to be effected by means of Labda's child, and they determined to prevent the fulfillment of the prophecy by destroying the babe itself so soon as it should be born.
His message to a neighboring potentate. Periander's intolerable tyranny. His wife Melissa. The ghost of Melissa. A great sacrifice. The reason of Periander's rudeness to the assembly of females. Labda the cripple. Prediction in respect to her progeny. Conspiracy to destroy Labda's child. Its failure. The child secreted. Fulfillment of the oracle. Hippias of Athens. His barbarous cruelty.
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