Croesus saved from the stake by rain (Boccaccio, De Casibus, Bnf Fr235, f76v)

Cresus, powerful king of Lydia, presumed his strength against the Persian Empire. The Persians took Sardis, Croesus' wife committed suicide and Croesus was chained and dragged before Cyrus.
For daring to raise an army against the Persian Empire, Cyrus ordered Croesus to be burned alive along with 14 young Lydian nobles. When Croesus saw the flames of the pyre approaching him, he called on Apollo for help and, according to Herodotus, a sudden rain fell on him and extinguished the fire. Croesus was saved from death by the fire, but he was still a captive of the Persian king and, remembering the words of Solon the Wise, he cried out: "O Solon! Solon! Solon!" Cyrus asked a translator what this word meant, and Croesus told the story of Solon's visit, how no man could be considered happy until he was dead, and further, how he had been deceived by the Oracle of Delphi who had told him that if he went to war against Cyrus, a great kingdom would fall, and here the great kingdom destroyed had been his.