Note 185 — Lecture IV. GREEK AND CHRISTIAN RHETORIC.
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Philostratus, V. S. 1. 25. 3, p. 228, narrates the incident with graphic humour, and adds two anecdotes which show that the Emperor was rather amused than annoyed by it. It was said of the same sophist that “he used to talk to cities as a superior, to kings as not inferior, and to gods as an equal,” ibid. 4.