The story is told by Herodotus , and as in all his stories , one may think that chronicle and legend are mixed in it. There was in Samos a tyrant named Polycrates , who was said to be the luckiest man of his time. He demonstrated this by easily reaching -as it was said, with only fifteen hoplites- absolute power in his city, and from then on emerging successfully from all the confrontations he had with foreign enemies and aspiring to displace him from power. With his float
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