In the concluding pages of this minisaga (Herodotus 1. 90-91), Croesus sends to inquire of the priestess of Apollo why the oracle had misled him.

At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.

The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.

And it reely was the penitent on his two knees, not the lover on his one.