Periander

The Milesians add that Periander son of Cypselus, a close friend of the Thrasybulus who then was sovereign of Miletus, learned what reply the oracle had given to Alyattes, and sent a messenger to tell Thrasybulus so that his friend, forewarned, could make his plans accordingly.

Periander, who disclosed the oracle's answer to Thrasybulus, was the son of Cypselus, and sovereign of Corinth.

Periander son of Cypselus sent to Alyattes at Sardis three hundred boys, sons of notable men in Corcyra, to be made eunuchs.

As for the seventh, some say he was Periander the Corinthian, some Anacharsis the Scythian, and some Epimenides the Cretan — whom the Apostle Paul mentions in the Epistle to Titus, saying thus:

and they wish "Practice accomplishes everything" to be Periander's;

Bathyllus (for Periander was still a boy) then gave her again in marriage with the talent for her dowry, and she dwelt with my father as his wife.

My mother, men of the jury, was the daughter of Polyaratus, of Cholargus, and sister of Menexenus, and Bathyllus and Periander.

The law of Periander forced us and laid command upon us to receive the list of those who owed equipment to the state,—I mean the law in accordance with which the navy-boards were constituted.

the one, having abolished the democracy, was tyrant of the Athenians, but Periander had received the kingship from his father, whom the Greeks called tyrant, but the gods king.

So then Periander was by the god proclaimed king, but by the Greeks wise;

And when I say "you," I mean your ancestors and Periander the son of Cypselus, the wise, in whose time Arion lived, who also first of men composed the dithyramb and named it and taught it in Corinth.

Do you know, said I, to whom I think the saying belongs—this statement that it is just to benefit friends and harm enemies?