WHAT CRCESUS PAID TO A GOD.
Til the good old days, when superstition was rife, there must have beeu a fortune in running an oracle temple. Herodotus relates, for example, that when Cnjesus, the Lydian King, wished to propitiate the god at Delphi he ottered up as a sacrifice 3,000 head of cattle, the pile being heaped- with gold and silver and with robes of purple. After the sacrifice was ended he melted down ;i vast quantity of gold, and cast hulfbricks with it, some of them weighing two and three talents each ; and he also made a figure of a lion of tine gold, weighing ten talents. There was a statue of a woman ia gold, three cubits high, and he even stripped his wife of her necklaces awl girdles. The full story of this amazing man and his doings is given in the ' Library of Famous Literature,' and affords a wonderful insight info the life of that ancient time. The offer of 'The Library of Famous Literature' has met with so large a degree of success that the copies reserved for New Zealand are almost exhausted. The offer must therefore soon be withdrawn, and intending purchasers should .send in their orders or apply for full particulars immediately.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 2096, 24 September 1901, Page 6
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