Efficax et illa quietis imago quae Croesi regis animum maximo prius metu deinde etiam dolore confecit: nam e duobus filiis et ingenii agilitate et corporis dotibus praestantiorem imperiique successioni destinatum Atym existimavit ferro sibi ereptum.
Effective also was that sleep-vision which cowed the mind of king Croesus, first with extreme of fear, then also with sorrow. For he thought that one of his two sons, Atys, who excelled the other both in mental agility and physical endowment and whom he destined to succeed him, was snatched from him by steel.
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