[ris-int] Re: unattending baronetcy

 
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that he applied to him an expression which has since passed into a
proverb, The Phrygian has spoken better than all. On the invitation of
Croesus he fixed his residence at Sardis, and was employed by that
monarch in various difficult and delicate affairs of State. In his
discharge of these commissions he visited the different petty republics
of Greece. At one time he is found in Corinth, and at another in Athens,
endeavouring, by the narration of some of his wise fables, to reconcile
the inhabitants of those cities to the administration of their
respective rulers Periander and Pisistratus. One of these ambassadorial
missions, undertaken at the command of Croesus, was the occasion of his
death. Having been sent to Delphi with a large sum of gold for
distribution among the citizens, he was so
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