Polycrates

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Polycrates [pəˈlɪkrəˌtiːz]

(Biographies / Polycrates (death date: ?522 bc), Greek, POLITICS: tyrant) died ?522 bc, Greek tyrant of Samos, who was crucified by a Persian satrap

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Thoroughness			The daughter of Polycrates, dreamed that Jupiter bathed her father, and Apollo anointed him; and it came to pass, that he was crucified in an open place, where the sun made his body run with sweat, and the rain washed it. The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context The Pyramids of Egypt are a proof of this, and the votive edifices of the Cyposelidse, and the temple of Jupiter Olympus, built by the Pisistratidae, and the works of Polycrates at Samos; for all these produced one end, the keeping the people poor. A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context You shall take half the sum that will be advanced upon it, or I will throw it into the Seine; and I doubt, as was the case with Polycrates, whether any fish will be sufficiently complaisant to bring it back to us. The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context			Polychroite Polychromate polychromatic Polychromatic acid polychromatism polychromatophilia polychrome polychromic polychromise polychromize Polychromous polychromy Polychronious Polycillin Polycirrus Polycleitus polyclinic Polyclitus polyclonal Polyconic polyconic projection polycotton polycotyledon Polycotyledonary Polycracy Polycrates Polycrotic Polycrotism polycrystal polycrystalline polycyclic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon polycystic polycystic kidney disease polycystic ovary syndrome Polycystid Polycystidea Polycystina Polycystine polycythaemia polycythemia Polycyttaria polydactyl polydactylism polydactylous Polydactylus Polydactylus virginicus polydactyly polydaemonism polydemic polydemonism			polycloning site Polycom Open Collaboration Network Polycom User Group Polycom Video Error Concealment Polycom, Inc. Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 Polycondensation Polyconic polyconic chart Polyconic map projection Polyconic map projection polyconic projection polyconic projection Polycontexturality Polycontexturality Polycopidae Polycopoidea polycoria Polycosanol Polycose polycot polycotton polycotyledon Polycotyledonary polycotyledonous Polycracy Polycrase Polycrates Polycrates of Samos Polycrates of Samos Polycrates' ring Polycross polycrotic polycrotic polycrotism polycrotism Polycrystal Polycrystal polycrystalline polycrystalline Polycrystalline Alumina Polycrystalline Cubic Boron Nitride Polycrystalline Diamond Polycrystalline Diamond Compact Polycrystalline Iron Oxide Nanocompounds Polycrystalline Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Polycrystalline silicon Polycrystalline silicon Polyctenidae Polycthaemia Rubra Vera with Thrombocytosis polycyclic polycyclic polycyclic Polycyclic Aromatic Compound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Dihydrodiol Epoxide

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