Engaged however in the literary career, my first thought was how I might at the same time promote my own interest, and render some service, however trifling, to my country, that it might be said of me, Haud inutiliter vixit. […] Altheusa it is plain might easily become Arethusa. […] Rhea, when about to be delivered of Zeus, besought her parents to teach her how she might save him. […] This is surely not the order one might have anticipated. […] On being desired by Zeus to express their wishes, they prayed that they might be appointed to officiate in that temple, and that they might be united in death as in life.