for his mother, he banished him to Corcyra. And when well advanced in years he sent for his son to be his successor in the tyranny ; but the Corcyraeans put him to death befoye he could set sail. Enraged at this, he dispatched the sons of the Corcyraeans to Alyattes that he might make eunuchs of them ; but, when the ship touched at Samos, they took sanctuary in the temple of Hera, and were saved by the Samians. Periander lost heart and died at the age of eighty. Sosicrates’ account is that he died fortyone years before Croesus, just before the 49th Olympiad.* Herodotus in his first book says that he was a guest-friend of Thrasybulus, tyrant of Miletus. an Aristippus in the first book of his work On the Luxury of the Ancients ® accuses him of incest with his own mother Crateia, and adds that, when the fact came to light, he vented his annoyance in indiscriminate severity. Ephorus records his vow that, if he won the victory at Olympia in the chariot-race, he would set up a golden statue. When the victory was won, being in sore straits for gold, he despoiled the women of all the ornaments which he had seen them wearing at some local festival. He was thus enabled to send the votive offering. There is a story that he did not wish the place where he was buried to be known, and to that end contrived the following device. He ordered two young men to go out at night by a certain road which he pointed out to them; they were to kill the man they met and bury him. He afterwards ordered four more to go in pursuit of the two, kill them and bury them; again, he dispatched a larger