Alyattes

This was how he attacked and besieged Miletus:

But after the army had returned to Sardis, Alyattes fell ill;

Then, when the Delphic reply was brought to Alyattes, he promptly sent a herald to

And Eudemus, in his Astrological Histories, says that Thales foretold the eclipse of the sun which occurred at the time when the Medes and the Lydians joined battle with one another, in the reign of Cyaxares, the father of Astyages, over the Medes, and of Alyattes, the father of Croesus, over the Lydians.