The divine
Saramé, who guards for the Lord of heaven the golden herd of stars and sunbeams and collects for him the nourishing rain-clouds as the cows of heaven to the milking, and who moreover faithfully conducts the pious dead into the world of the blessed, becomes in the hands of the Greeks the son of Saramd, Saraméyas, or Hermeias ; and the enigmatical Hellenic story of the steal ing of the cattle of Helios, which is beyond doubt con nected with the Roman legend- about Cacus, is now seen to be a last echo (with the meaning no longer understood) of that old fanciful and significant conception of nature.
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.1. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
