If signal piety raised Castor and Pollux to the skies, if Aeneas won immortality by rescuing his sire from burning Troy, if ancient story has rendered famous the names of those Argive brothers, Cleobis and Biton,[69] who harnessed themselves to their mother’s car, why does not Sicily dedicate a temple to the ageless memory of Amphinomos and Anapius? Though the three-cornered isle has many titles to fame, let her be sure that she has never given birth to a nobler deed. Let her not weep the destruction wrought by the spreading flames nor lament the houses burned down by the fire’s fury. The flames abating had never put affection to the proof; the great disaster purchased immortal fame. [69] Herodotus tells their story in book i. 31. * * * * * Page 192 XVIII. (LI.) _De mulabus Gallicis._ Adspice morigeras Rhodani torrentis alumnas imperio nexas imperioque vagas, dissona quam varios flectant ad murmura cursus et certas adeant voce regente vias. quamvis quaeque sibi nullis discurrat habenis 5 et pateant duro libera colla iugo, ceu constricta tamen servit patiensque laborum barbaricos docili concipit aure sonos. absentis longinqua valent praecepta magistri, frenorumque vicem lingua virilis agit. 10 haec procul angustat sparsas spargitque coactas: haec sistit rapidas, haec properare facit. laeva iubet: laevo deducunt limite gressum. mutavit strepitum: dexteriora petunt. nec vinclis famulae nec libertate feroces, 15 exutae laqueis, sub dicione tamen consensuque pares et fulvis pellibus hirtae esseda concordes multisonora trahunt. miraris, si voce feras pacaverit Orpheus, cum pronas pecudes Gallica verba regant? 20 XIX. (XLIII.) _Epistula ad Gennadium exproconsule._ Italiae commune decus, Rubiconis amoeni incola, Romani fama secunda fori, * * * * * Page 193 XVIII. (LI.) _Of French Mules._