Et dedignatus hominem superare certamine despicabilem,
auctoritatis et celsi fiducia corporis, ipsis hostibus
jussit, suum vincire rectorem: atque ita turmarum
antesignanus umbratilis comprensus suorum manibus. The strength and beauty of Arintheus, the new Hercules, are celebrated by St. Basil, who supposes that God had created him as an inimitable model of the human species. The painters and sculptors could not express his figure: the historians appeared fabulous when they related his exploits (Ammian. xxvi. [c. 8] and Vales. ad loc.) .