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On hearing his account, Polycrates, notwithstanding many warnings
given him by the soothsayers, and much dissuasion of his friends, made
ready to go in person. Even the dream which visited his daughter
failed to check him. She had dreamed that she saw her father hanging
high in air, washed by love, and anointed by the sun. Having
therefore thus dreamed, she used every effort to prevent her father
from going; even as he went on board his penteconter crying after him
with words of evil omen. Then Polycrates threatened her that, if he
returned in safety, he would keep her unmarried many years. She
answered, "Oh! that he might perform his threat; far better for her
to remain long unmarried than to be bereft of her father!"
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