King Cræsus of Lydia reasoneth with the wyseman Solon, of the happie
life of man. Who little esteeming his good aduise, vnderstoode before
his death, that no man (but by vertue) can in this life attaine
felicitie.
[_Source and Origin._--Herod, i. 50 _seq._
_Parallels._--I. _Ancient_: Diod. xvi. 56; Plutarch, _Solon_. II.
_Modern_: Albertinus, 235; Kirchhof, _Wendenmuth_, i. 4; Wanley,
_Wonders of the Little World_, ed. 1774. III. li. 7.
_Painter_, I. i. 21; II. i. 20; III. i. 35; IV. i. 49.
_Derivates._--A tragedy under this name was written by Earl Stirling
about 1601.]