Note 1 — The False Tale

Afterwards calling the boy near him he gave him sorts of food. Meanwhile the boy’s mind was delighted. Next, he gave him a little money. To the boy said the soothsayer, “Your father is lost, is it not so?” he asked; “that is I,” the soothsayer said. The soothsayer by some device or other ascertained that the person’s father1 had left the country and gone.