35. Under the modest emblem of a dream, Gregory (tom. ii.
Carmen ix. p. 78) describes his own success with some human
complacency. Yet it should seem, from his familiar
conversation with his auditor St. Jerom (tom. i. Epist. ad
Nepotian. p. 14 [tom. i. p. 261, ed. Vallars.]), that the
preacher understood the true value of popular applause.