to Apollo at Didyma, with this dedication, according to Callimachus : Lord of the folk of Neleus’ line, Thales, of Greeks adjudged most wise, Brings to thy Didymaean shrine His offering, a twice-won prize. But the prose inscription is : Thales the Milesian, son of Examyas [dedicates this] to Delphinian Apollo after twice winning the prize from all the Greeks. The bowl was carried from place to place by the son of Bathycles, whose name was Thyrion, so it is stated by Eleusis in his work On Achilles, and Alexo the Myndian in the ninth book of his Legends. But Eudoxus of Cnidos and Euanthes of Miletus agree that a certain man who was a friend of Croesus received from the king a golden goblet in order to bestow it upon the wisest of the Greeks ; this man gave it to Thales, and from him it passed to others and so to Chilon. Chilon laid the question ‘“‘ Who is a wiser man than I?” before the Pythian Apollo, and the god replied “ Myson.” Of him we shall have more to say presently. (In the list of the Seven Sages given by Eudoxus, Myson takes the place of Cleobulus; Plato also includes him by omitting Periander.) The answer of the oracle respecting him was as follows?: Myson of Chen in Oeta ; this is he Who for wiseheartedness surpasseth thee ; and it was given in reply to a question put by Anacharsis. Daimachus the Platonist and Clearchus allege that a bowl was sent by Croesus to Pittacus and began the round of the Wise Men from him.