They were three in number. […] Thus Cybele and Penates are words of three syllables. […] Hence she gathered three golden apples, and, unseen by any one else, gave them to Hippomenes, and told him how to use them. […] Augeas, king of Elis, had a herd of three thousand oxen, whose stalls had not been cleansed for thirty years. […] When this service was ended he married Dejanira and lived in peace with her three years.