There are seven instances of Croesus in five chapters.
Normalized frequency of Croesus in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 18 · ¶ 2.
Let Others Judge of Our Happiness after Our Death
❯ Children know this. They know the story of King Croesus who, taken prisoner by Cyrus and condemned to die, cried “O Solon! …
- Book 1 · Chapter 18 · ¶ 2.
Let Others Judge of Our Happiness after Our Death
❯ Cyrus of this, and after he sought to discover what it meant, Croesus told him that he was finding, at great personal cost, that the …
- Book 1 · Chapter 20 · ¶ 7.
On the Power of Imagination
❯ grow some on his forehead by sheer power of imagination.∗❦ Passion gave Croesus’s son a voice which nature had denied him. And Antiochus caught a …
- Book 1 · Chapter 48 · ¶ 39.
On War Horses
❯ Croesus, marching his army through certain waste lands near Sardis, met with an …
- Book 2 · Chapter 27 · ¶ 33.
Cowardice, Mother of Cruelty
❯ And these other two: Croesus, having caused a gentleman, the favorite of his brother Pantaleon, to be …
- Book 3 · Chapter 6 · ¶ 20.
On Coaches
❯ so receive aids wherein there is nothing of gratuitous but the name. Croesus reproached him with his bounty, and cast up to how much his …
- Book 3 · Chapter 6 · ¶ 20.
On Coaches
❯ it appeared that the sum amounted to a great deal more than Croesus’s reckoning. Whereupon Cyrus: “I am not,” said he, “less in love with …