According to Herodotus, Amasis thought Polycrates was too successful, and advised him to throw away whatever he valued most in order to escape a reversal of fortune.

Controversy arose when Victor, bishop of Rome a generation after Anicetus, attempted to excommunicate Polycrates of Ephesus and all other bishops of Asia for their Quartodecimanism.

It is more likely that the alliance was ended because Polycrates allied with the Persian king Cambyses II against Egypt.

Victor is remembered for the great concern he displayed for order in the church by severing ties with bishops such as Polycrates of Ephesus who opposed his views on Easter.

By this time, Polycrates had created a navy of 40 triremes, probably becoming the first Greek state with a fleet of such ships.

He, Polycrates, claimed that he was simply following the practices according to scripture and the Gospels, as taught by the Apostles John and Philip, as well as by church leaders such as Polycarp and Melito of Sardis.

Near the end of the reign of Cambyses, the governor of Sardis, Oroetes, planned to kill Polycrates, either because he had been unable to add Samos to Persia's territory, or because Polycrates had supposedly snubbed a Persian ambassador.

He also married a Greek princess named Ladice daughter of King Battus III and made alliances with Polycrates of Samos and Croesus of Lydia.

He had planned to rebuild the palace of Polycrates at Samos, to finish the temple of Didymaean Apollo at Ephesus and to found a city high up in the Alps.

Polycrates ( c. 190 ), however wrote to Victor defending the antiquity of Asian Quartodecimanism.

Clement of Alexandria, in his Paedagogus ( The Pedagogue ) 3. 59. 2-3. 60, writes that Christians may wear a seal ring for the sealing of documents, and he specifies permissible depictions: " And let our seals be either a dove, or a fish, or a ship scudding before the wind, or a musical lyre, which Polycrates used, or a ship's anchor, which Seleucus got engraved as a device ; and if there be one fishing, he will remember the apostle, and the children drawn out of the water.

( The element of a ring thrown into the sea and found back in a fish's belly later appeared in Herodotus ' account of Polycrates, the tyrant of Samos from c. 538 BC to 522 BC.

525 BC, when, according to Herodotus, the tyrant Polycrates of Samos was able to contribute 40 triremes to a Persian invasion of Egypt.

But this hope failed, as the Cypriot towns and the tyrant Polycrates of Samos, who possessed a large fleet, now preferred to join the Persians, and the commander of the Greek troops, Phanes of Halicarnassus, went over to them.

He was captured by Darius in the defeat of the Samian tyrant Polycrates and taken to the Persian capital of Susa as a slave.

Ibycus () ( floruit: 2nd half of 6th century BC ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, a citizen of Rhegium in Magna Graecia, probably active at Samos during the reign of the tyrant Polycrates and numbered by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria in the canonical list of nine lyric poets.

Suda's chronology has been dismissed as " muddled " since it makes Ibycus about a generation older than Anacreon, another poet known to have flourished at the court of Polycrates, and it is inconsistent with what we know of the Samian tyrant from Herodotus.

Eusebius recorded the poet's first experience of fame (" agnoscitur ") somewhere between 542 and 537 BC and this better fits the period of Polycrates ' reign.

Suda's account seems to be corroborated by a papyrus fragment ( P. Oxy. 1790 ), usually ascribed to Ibycus, glorifying a youthful Polycrates, but this was unlikely to have been the Polycrates of Samos and might instead have been his son, mentioned in a different context by Himerius as Polycrates, governor of Rhodes.

When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.

Man, we are told, is endowed with reason and is capable of distinguishing good from bad.

Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.

One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.

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The club was ridiculed during the 1980s with a milk advert on television, in which a young boy boasted that Ian Rush had told him that " if didn't drink lots of milk, when up, only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley ".

On more than one occasion, Judge told the writers that one of their ideas for an episode of King of the Hill would work well for Beavis and Butt-Head ; eventually he concluded, " Maybe we should just actually make some good Beavis and Butt-Head episodes.

“ A good video can sell a record which might not do so well ," Bubbles told Smash Hits magazine in 1982.

The Prophet Mohammed told them that, despite this being good, it is also a blessing to raise a family, to remain moderate and not to concentrate too much on one aspect as not only can this be unhealthy for an individual as well as upon society, it may also take one away from God.

Anson told Spiders ' manager Gus Schmelz, " He's too green to do your club much good, but I believe if I taught him what I know, I might make a pitcher out of him in a couple of years.

He finally adopted the nom de plume George Orwell because, as he told Eleanor Jacques, " It is a good round English name.

* " Jimi Hendrix: ' You never told me he was that good '" Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian

" On June 10, 2009, on the topic of Voight's fundraiser speech, Glenn Beck told Voight in a radio interview: " It's good not to be alone.

Roosevelt told Ambassador Nomura that he would like to see more details of Konoe's proposal, and he suggested that Juneau, Alaska, might be a good spot for a meeting.

The sincerity of the good faith efforts of the Libyan government may be questionable since Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri, told a U. S. diplomat in 2009 that the Libyans were willing to host wounded Guinean junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara after a failed assassination attempt in 2009.

Kalashnikov told Reuters Television, " I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things.

At that supper, then, Mary received the glorious encomium, " she hath wrought a good work upon Me ... in pouring this ointment upon My body she hath done it for My burial ... wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached ... that also which she hath done shall be told for a memory of her.

Dixon told an interviewer that he even cleared the name with New Orleans ' Archbishop Philip M. Hannan: " He thought it would be a good idea.

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Lay down your arms, for we are told in Scripture not to render evil for good but to overcome evil by good.