The creature flapped its broad wings in the air, which was golden with sunshine and quivering with heat, soaring above the smoke and fire, this way and that.

But it soon took flight, away from the furnace beneath.

I shouted with delight, and cried to my father: 'Look at the bird! Where is he flying ?' And he eagerly answered: 'Well done! If you desire to preserve the power I have conquered for you always undiminished, you must keep your eyes open.

Let no sign pass unnoticed, no opportunity neglected.' "He himself acted on this rule.

To him obstacles existed only to be removed, and he taught me, too, to give myself neither peace nor rest, and not to spare the life of a foe .-- That festival secured my father the suffrages of the Romans.