4. The story of the _Fabii_, whereof three hundred and six marching against the _Veientes_, were all slain, and one child alone to support the family remained; is surely not to be paralleld, nor easie to be conceived, except we can imagine, that of three hundred and six, but one had children below the service of war; that the rest were all unmarried, or the wife but of one impregnated. 5. The received story of _Milo_, who by daily lifting a Calf, attained an ability to carry it being a Bull, is witty conceit, and handsomly sets forth the efficacy of Assuefaction. But surely the account had been more reasonably placed upon some person not much exceeding in strength, and such a one as without the assistance of custom could never have performed that act; which some may presume that _Milo_ without precedent artifice or any other preparative, had strength enough to perform. For as relations declare, he was the most pancratical man of _Greece_, and as _Galen_ reporteth, and _Mercurialis_ in his Gymnasticks representeth, he was able to persist erect upon an oyled plank, and not to be removed by the force or protrusion of three men. And if that be true which _Atheneus_ reporteth, he was little beholding to custom for this ability. For in the Olympick games, for the space of a furlong, he carried an Ox of four years upon his shoulders; and the same day he carried it in his belly: for as it is there delivered he eat it up himself. Surely he had been a proper guest at _Grandgousiers_ feast, and might have matcht his throat that eat six pilgrims for a Salad. [SN: In Rabelais.] 6. It much disadvantageth the Panegyrick of _Synesius_ [SN: _Who writ in the praise of baldness._], and is no small disparagement unto baldness, if it be true what is related by _Ælian_ concerning _Æschilus_, whose bald-pate was mistaken for a rock, and so was brained by a Tortoise which an _Æagle_ let fall upon it. Certainly it was a very great mistake in the perspicacy of that Animal. [SN: _An argument or instance against the motion of the earth._] Some men critically disposed, would from hence confute the opinion of _Copernicus_, never conceiving how the motion of the earth below should not wave him from a knock perpendicularly directed from a body in the air above.