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Updated: May 16, 2025
He is killed by Adrastus. Anguish of Adrastus. Burial of Atys. Adrastus kills himself. Grief of Croesus. The scene of our narrative must now be changed, for a time, from Persia and Media, in the East, to Asia Minor, in the West, where the great Croesus, originally King of Lydia, was at this time gradually extending his empire along the shores of the Ægean Sea.
The Lydians could repeat the names of at least thirty monarchs who had borne sway in Sardis, their capital city, since its foundation. They had never been conquered. In the old times, indeed, Lydus, the son of Atys, had changed the name of the people inhabiting the country from Maeonians to Lydians a change which to the keen sense of an historical critic implies a conquest of one race by another.
Then, in a flash and thunder of flying horses, we swept like tawny lightning down the Pincian. The last words I heard from the club window, through the heliotrope-scented air, were "Thirty to one on Atys, half only if declared." They were wagering on our lives; the slang of the paddock was on their lips. Onward, downward, we sped, the fair stranger lifeless in my arms.
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