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Then Croesus answered, "My son, it is not because I have seen in
thee either cowardice or aught else which has displeased me that I keep
thee back; but because a vision which came before me in a dream as I
slept, warned me that thou wert doomed to die young, pierced by an
iron weapon. It was this which first led me to hasten on thy wedding,
and now it hinders me from sending thee upon this enterprise. Fain
would I keep watch over thee, if by any means I may cheat fate of
thee during my own lifetime. For thou art the one and only son that I
possess; the other, whose hearing is destroyed, I regard as if he
were not."
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