que está recién casado y se ocupa ahora de los asuntos de su matrimonio: pero enviaré con vosotros a hombres escogidos de los lidios y el número entero de mis perros de caza, y daré orden a los que vayan para que sean tan entusiastas como sea posible en ayudaros a destruir la fiera
- Thus he made reply, and while the Mysians were being contented with this answer, there came in also the son of Croesus, having heard of the request made by the Mysians: and when Croesus said that he would not send his son with them, the young man spoke as follows:
“My father, in times past the fairest and most noble part was allotted to us, to go out continually to wars and to the chase and so have good repute; but now thou hast debarred me from both of these, although thou hast not observed in me any cowardly or fainthearted spirit. And now with what face must I appear when I go to and from the marketplace of the city? What kind of a man shall I be esteemed by the citizens, and what kind of a man shall I be esteemed by my newly-married wife? With what kind of a husband will she think that she is mated? Therefore either let me go to the hunt, or persuade me by reason that these things are better for me done as now they are.”
- Y Creso respondió de este modo: «Hijo mío, no porque haya observado en ti espíritu alguno de cobardía o cualquier otra cosa desagradable actúo así; sino que la visión de un sueño se me apareció de pie en sueños y me dijo que habías de tener corta vida y que habías de perecer por la punta de una lanza de hierro. Teniendo presente esta visión, por lo tanto, tanto apresuré este matrimonio para ti como me niego ahora a enviarte al asunto que se está emprendiendo, cuidando de ti para robarte a tu destino