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loss to say whether deservedly or not, died, leaving the son of 
his own enemy his heir.^^ 
CHAP. 47. (46.) MEN WHOM THE GODS HAVE PEONOITNCED TO BE 
THE MOST HAPPr. 
In reference to this point, two oracles of Delphi may come 
nnder our consideration, which would appear to have been 
pronounced as though in order to chastise the vanity of man. 
These oracles were the following: by the first, Pedius was 
pronounced to be the most happy of men, who had just before 
fallen in defence of his country. On the second occasion, 
when it had been consulted by Gyges, at that time the most 
powerful king in the world, it declared that Aglaiis of 
Psophis^* was a more happy man than himself. This Aglaiis 
was an old man, who lived in a poor petty nook of Arcadia, 
and cultivated a small farm, though quite sufficient for the 
supply of his yearly wants he had never so much as left it, 
and, as was quite evident from his mode of living, his desires 
being of the most limited kind, he had experienced but an ex- 
tremely small share of the miseries of life. 
CHAP. 48. (47.) — THE MAN WHOM THE GODS OEDEEED TO BE 
WORSHIPPED DURING HIS LIFE-TIME ; A EEMAEKABLE FLASH OF 
LIGHTNING. 
"While still surviving, and in full possession of his senses, 
by the command of the same oracle, and with the sanction of 
Jupiter, the supreme Pather of the gods, Euthymus,^^ the 
pugilist, who had always, with one exception, been victorious 
in the Olympic games, was deified. He was a native of Locri, 
32 For Tiberius Nero, tlie father of Tiberius Csesar, took the side of 
M. Antonius in the Civil "War. — B. 
^3 We have no mention of Pedius, or Phedius, as lie is named in some of 
the MSS., in any of the ancient authors. A story of the same import is 
related of Solon andTellus, by Herodotus, B. i. c. 30, and by Plutarch. — B. 
3^ A town of Arcadia. See B. iv. c. 10, 
35 This is also related by Valerius Maximus, B. vii. c. 1. — B. 
3^ This is very similar to Virgil's beautiful description of the old man 
Corycius, in the Georgics, B. iv. 1. 125, et seq. 
37 We have some account of Euthymus in Pausanias, B. vi., and in 
iElian, Var. Hist. B. viii. c. 18.— B. 
