N.B .-- Humorous also and an Oriental tinge.
C1.38.One can't help thinking of Socrates and the people of Athens here.

If so, this is a quasi-apology for the Athenian _bons peres de famille_ who condemned Socrates.

Beautiful story of the sophist teacher's last injunction to Tigranes.
C1.40-41.

What smiles after tears! Like a sunny day succeeding clouds and blackness.

A pretty story this, of the wife of Tigranes.