Croesus, marching his army through certain waste lands near Sardis, met with an infinite number of serpents, which the horses devoured with great appetite, and which Herodotus says was a prodigy of ominous portent to his affairs.
Kresok, Sardis hirian zehar iraganik, suge anitz zeuden larreak aurkitu zituen, bere armadako zaldiek gogotik jaten zituztelarik, bere eginbeharretarako mirari makurra izan zena, Herodotok dioenez.