Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 158
nfluence, and was willing to pay alarge price for it. That was his idea of a goodinvestment. There is no question that avaricewas the great passion of Crassus, and it was thisthat destroyed him in the end. So it ought, said Amy. He deservedto be punished. He was punished badly enough, rejoinedUncle… … THE LYDIAN KING, CRCESUS, A PRISONER BEFORE CYRUS, KING OF PERSIA. and received as his share of territory the Asiaticprovinces, from the inhabitants of which hebelieved he could extort fabulous sums. With-out the slightest provocation, he led an armyagainst them, but blundered so terribly as…
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