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Another less common version of the story is that Oroetes sent a herald
to Samos to make a request, the nature of which is not stated;
Polycrates was at the time reclining in the apartment of the males,
and Anacreon the Teian was with him; when therefore the herald came
forward to converse, Polycrates, either out of studied contempt for
the power of Oroetes, or it may be merely by chance, was lying with
his face turned away towards the wall; and so he lay all the time that
the herald spake, and when he ended, did not even vouchsafe him a word.
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