Loxias

Family: Greek · Role: god · First appears: Book 1 · §89–93

Life events

Loxias's explanation attributed Croesus's downfall to his failure to clarify the oracle.(Book 1 · §89–93 · 📍 Delphi)
- With: Croesus
- “but as he did not comprehend that which was uttered and did not ask again, let him pronounce himself to be the cause of that which followed.”

with Croesus (Croesus seeks permission to reproach Loxias for the oracle.) “Then Cyrus asked him what accusation he made against the god, that he thus requested; and Croesus repeated to him all that had been in his mind, and the answers of the Oracles, and especially the votive offerings, and how he had been incited by the prophecy to march upon the Persians: and thus speaking he came back again to the request that it might be permitted to him to make this reproach against the god.”

with Arkesilaos son of Battos the Lame (The oracle conveys Loxias's counsel to Arkesilaos.) “Loxias grants to you to be kings of Kyrene, but beyond this he counsels you not even to attempt it.”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.