CROESUS

PRONUNCIATION: (KREE-suhs)

MEANING: noun: A very wealthy person.

ETYMOLOGY: After Croesus (595-546 BCE), last king of Lydia, known for his great wealth. Earliest documented use: 1390.

NOTES: The story goes that Croesus showed his enormous wealth to the visiting wise man Solon and asked him who the happiest man was, fully expecting himself to be named. Solon’s reply, “Consider no one happy until he is dead”, disappointed him. Croesus realized the wisdom of Solon’s words when Cyrus the Great of Persia defeated and captured him.
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