Capital of ancient Lydia

Usage examples of sardis.

Histiaeus was captured and put to death by the idiot at Sardis, which made the Great King angry because he liked Histiaeus and never blamed him for any of the Milesian business.

When the tyrant of Samos was put to death by the Persian satrap at Sardis, his physician Democedes was enslaved.

Before then it was introduced into Europe from Sardis, in Asia Minor, whence the fruit was called the 'Sardian Nut.

Even in those days, royal messengers could travel the fifteen hundred miles from Susa to Sardis in less than a week.

Later, when Darius came to Sardis, he fell from his horse and tore the muscles of the right foot.

Although this powerful figure kept royal state at Sardis, the capital of the wealthy and ancient kingdom of Lydia which Cyrus had taken from Croesus, he was a mere servant here, slave to his younger brother the Great King.

Since the streets were simply haphazard lanes, it was even easier to get lost in Sardis than it is in the equally unlovely Susa or Athens.

Yes, Sardis is indeed a city of gold because the muddy river is full of gold dust and it was the father of Croesus who first began to pan the gold and turn it into jewelry.

But the city that had been built so haphazardly in the first place was rebuilt with astonishing speed and in six months Sardis was its somewhat improved old self again, except for the temple of Cybele, which was left in ruins.

Although the burning of Sardis had been a shock, the court was confident that the Greeks would soon be punished.

He thought that the original cities were simply villages that had got too large, like Sardis or Susa or Ecbatana or Varanasi.

As he put his foot on the long Sardis rug that leads to the throne, we prostrated ourselves.

Although I did not know it at the time, Lu was considered somewhat backward by such up-and-coming states as Key, whose capital city was regarded with rather the same awe that Sardis used to be by us.

Then he flung wide arms from which the silk-encased fat hung like Sardis bed bolsters.

He had avenged Troy and Sardis and, all in all, he was well pleased with the outcome of the Greek war.