The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs (255 page)
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Call no man HAPPY till he dies
The story alluded to in quot. 1545 is narrated in Herodotus'
Histories
I. xxxii: when the great Athenian lawgiver Solon visited Croesus, the fabulously wealthy king of Lydia, the latter asked Solon who was the happiest man he had ever seen—expecting the answer to be himself. Cf. SOPHOCLES
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Histories
I. xxxii: when the great Athenian lawgiver Solon visited Croesus, the fabulously wealthy king of Lydia, the latter asked Solon who was the happiest man he had ever seen—expecting the answer to be himself. Cf. SOPHOCLES
Oedipus Rex
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