people
The Catanaean brothers
the Sicilian youths
also: Amphinomus and Anapias, the pious brothers
Amphinomus and Anapias of Catania, who carried their parents to safety through an eruption of Aetna; the proverbial type of filial devotion.
Reading notes
- On Benefits §6.36.1 the Sicilian youths
Amphinomus and Anapias of Catania, who bore their parents through an eruption of Aetna — the type of devotion that does not wish the disaster it answers.