Proconnesian, and Cleomedes the Astypalaean; for they say Aristeas
died in a fuller's workshop, and his friends, coming to look for
him, found his body vanished; and that some presently after,
coming from abroad, said they met him travelling towards Croton.
And that Cleomedes, being an extraordinarily strong and gigantic
man, but also wild and mad, committed many desperate freaks; and
at last, in a schoolhouse, striking a pillar that sustained the
roof with his fist, broke it in the middle, so that the house fell
and destroyed the children in it; and being pursued, he fled into
a great chest, and, shutting to the lid, held it so fast that many
men, with their united strength, could not force it open;
afterwards, breaking the chest to pieces, they found no man in it
alive or dead.

And many such improbabilities do your fabulous writers relate,
deifying creatures naturally mortal; for though altogether to
disown a divine nature in human virtue were impious and base, so
again to mix heaven with earth is ridiculous. Let us believe with
Pindar, that

All human bodies yield to Death's decree:
The soul survives to all eternity.

For that alone is derived from the gods, thence comes, and thither
returns.

It was in the fifty-fourth year of his age and the thirty-eighth
of his reign that Romulus, they tell us, left the world.