. Thackerayana;. his victories had vainly solicited them tounite in his cause, and who now foundhimself in a position to constrain them byforce, gave as his only answer the apologueof a fisherman, who, having tried to lurethe fish with the notes of his flute, withoutany success, had recourse to his net as theshortest method of securing them.— p. 232. 1 Herodotus, and after him Justinian, re-counts that Astyages, King of the Medes,on the impressions of an alarming dream,which announced that a child, his daugh-ter was to bear, would dethrone him, gave

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