Archelaus

“ Who, then, can be so senseless, my dearly beloved Diodorus, as to say that those are aliens to each other who have been allied with each other, who have prophesied in turn for each other, and who have shown signs and wonders which are equal and similar, the one to the other, and of like nature with each other ”

“ Think you, indeed, that the boy who is brought by his pædagogue to the teachers of learning [6] when he is yet a very little fellow, ought to hold that pædagogue in no honour [7] after he has grown up to manhood, simply because he needs his services [8] no longer, but can make his course without any assistance from that attendant to the schools, and quickly find his way to the lecture-rooms? ”

“ A certain man on one occasion having noticed an infant exposed on the ground and already suffering excessively, picked it up, and undertook to rear it in his own house until it should reach the age of youth, and sustained all the toils and anxieties which are wont to fall to the lot of those who have to bring up children. After a time, however, it happened that he who was the child’s natural father came seeking the boy, and found him with this person who had brought him up. ”