Having written down this inspired utterance of the
 Pythian priestess, the Lydians went back to Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus) Sardis . When the others as well who had been sent to various places came
 bringing their oracles, Croesus then unfolded and
 examined all the writings. Some of them in no way satisfied him. But when he
 read the Delphian message, he acknowledged it
 with worship and welcome, considering Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi as the only true place of divination, because it had discovered what
 he himself had done. For after sending his envoys to the oracles, he had thought up something
 which no conjecture could discover, and carried it out on the appointed day:
 namely, he had cut up a tortoise and a lamb, and then boiled them in a
 cauldron of bronze covered with a lid of the same. Such, then, was the answer from Delphi [22.5167,38.4917] (Perseus) Delphi delivered to Croesus . As to the reply which
 the Lydians received from the oracle of Amphiaraus when they had followed the due custom of
 the temple, I cannot say what it was, for nothing is recorded of it, except
 that Croesus believed that from this oracle too he
 had obtained a true answer. After this, he tried to win the favor of the Delphian god with great sacrifices. He offered up
 three thousand beasts from all the kinds fit for sacrifice, and on a great
 pyre burnt couches covered with gold and silver, golden goblets, and purple
 cloaks and tunics; by these means he hoped the better to win the aid of the
 god, to whom he also commanded that every Lydian 
 sacrifice what he could. When the sacrifice was over, he melted down a vast store of gold and made
 ingots of it, the longer sides of which were of six and the shorter of three
 palms' length, and the height was one palm. There were a hundred and
 seventeen of these. Four of them were of refined gold, each weighing two
 talents and a half; the rest were of gold with silver alloy, each of two
 talents' weight.