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Thus assured, Croesus let them depart, accompanied by a band of
picked youths, and well provided with dogs of chase. When they
reached Olympus, they scattered in quest of the animal; he was soon
found, and the hunters, drawing round him in a circle, hurled their
weapons at him. Then the stranger, the man who had been purified of
blood, whose name was Adrastus, he also hurled his spear at the
boar, but missed his aim, and struck Atys. Thus was the son of
Croesus slain by the point of an iron weapon, and the warning of the
vision was fulfilled. Then one ran to Sardis to bear the tidings to
the king, and he came and informed him of the combat and of the fate
that had befallen his son.
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