ng-place like the tiger from the summit
of the rock where it has been couching, traversed the chamber at a
bound, and plunged the Bactrian poniard up to the very hilt in the heart
of the descendant of Hercules. The chastity of Nyssia was avenged, and
the dream of Gyges accomplished.

Thus ended the dynasty of the Heracleidae, after having endured for
five hundred and five years, and commenced that of the Mermnades in the
person of Gyges, son of Dascylus. The Sardians, indignant at the
death of Candaules, threatened revolt; but the oracle of Delphi having
declared in favour of Gyges, who had sent thither a vast number of
silver vases and six golden cratera of the value of thirty talents, the
new king maintained his seat on the throne of Lydia, which he occupied
for many long years, lived happily, and never showed his wife to any
one, knowing too well what it cost.

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