iends strongly dissuaded him from it, and in spite
moreover of a vision which his daughter had seen in sleep of this
kind,--it seemed to her that her father was raised up on high and was
bathed by Zeus and anointed by the Sun. Having seen this vision, she
used every kind of endeavour to dissuade Polycrates from leaving
his land to go to Oroites, and besides that, as he was going to his
fifty-oared galley she accompanied his departure with prophetic words:
and he threatened her that if he should return safe, she should remain
unmarried for long; but she prayed that this might come to pass, for she
desired rather, she said, to be unmarried for long than to be an orphan,
having lost her father.

125. Polycrates however neglected every counsel and set sail to go to
Oroites, taking with him, besides many others of his friends, Demokedes
also the son of Calliphon, a man of Croton, who was a physician and
practised his art better than any other man of is time. Then when he
arrived at Magnesia, Polycrates was miserably put to death in a manner
unworthy both of himself and of his high ambition: for excepting those
who become despots of the Syracusans, not one besides of the Hellenic
despots is worthy to be compared with Polycrates in magnificence. And
when he had killed him in a manner not fit to be told, Oroites impaled
his body: and of those who accompanied him, as many as were Samians he
released, bidding them be grateful to him that they were free men; but
all those of his company who were either allies or servants, he held in
the estimation of slaves and kept them. Polycrates then being hung up
accomplished wholly the vision of his daughter, for he was bathed by
Zeus whenever it rained, 11001 and anointed by the Sun, giving forth
moisture himself from his body.

126. To this end came the great prosperity of Polycrates, as Amasis
the king of Egypt had foretold to him: 111 but not long afterwards
retribution overtook Oroites in his turn for the murder of Polycrates.
For after the death of Cambyses and the reign of the Magians Oroites
remained at Sardis and did no service to the Persians, when they had
been deprived of their empire by the Medes; moreover during this time
of disturbance he slew Mitrobates the governor in Daskyleion, who had
brought up against him the matter of Polycrates as a reproach; and he
slew also Cranaspes the son of Mitrobates, both men of repute among
the Persians: and besides other various deeds of in