Chapter 55

_Plautus._ Truculentus, prologue 1-3.

_no rose without a thorn._ The Latin is _ubi uber, ibi tuber_. Wherever you get rich soil, there you will find pignuts.

_the council of Africa_ was theoretically an association for the worship of the imperial house. It had some political importance, however, inasmuch as it might criticize the governor and forward its criticisms to the Emperor at Rome.

_Protagoras_, a famous sophist of Abdera (latter half of fifth century).

_dilemma._ See note on Apologia, chap. 9, _self-inconsistency_. A closely parallel story is told of Corax and Tisias, rhetoricians slightly earlier in date.

_Thales of Miletus_, the first of the great mathematicians and physical philosophers of Greece: one of the seven sages. He flourished towards the end of the seventh century B.C.