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The fifth and last of the Mermnadae, who reigned in Lydia, was the son of Alyattes, and was considered the richest man in the world. His court was an asylum for learning, and Aesop, the famous fable writer, with other learned men, lived under his patronage. "As rich as Croesus" has become a proverb.