NOTES.
Note 1, page 3.
"Cleobis and Biton, natives of Argos, possessed a sufficient fortune, and had withal such strength of body that they were both alike victorious in the public games. When the Argives were celebrating a festival of Hera, it was necessary that their mother should be drawn to the temple in a chariot; but the oxen did not come from the field in time; the young men, therefore, being pressed for time, put themselves beneath the yoke, and drew the car in which their mother sat; and having conveyed it forty-five stades, they reached the temple. . . . The men of Argos who stood round commended the strength of the youths, and the women blessed her as the mother of such sons; but the mother herself, transported with joy both on account of the action and its renown, stood before the image, and prayed that the goddess would grant to Cleobis and Biton, her own sons, who had so highly honored her, the greatest blessing man could receive.
'After this prayer, when they had sacrificed and partaken of the feast, the youths fell asleep in the temple itself, and never awoke more, but met with such a termination of life. Upon this the Argives, in commemoration of their piety, caused their statues to be made and dedicated at Delphi."—Herodotus, i. 31.
Cicero (Tusc. Disp. I. 47) and others, as Servius (ad Virg. Geog. iii. 532) and the author of the Platonic dialogue entitled "Ariochus" (367 C), relate that the ground
