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[4] For the Lacedaemonians had sent to Sardis to buy gold, intending to use it for the statue of Apollo which now stands on Thornax1 in Laconia; and Croesus, when they offered to buy it, made them a free gift of it.

1 A mountain north-east of Sparta, overlooking the Eurotas valley.

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