At another time, when Rutilianus enquired whose
soul he had inherited, the reply was:

 Peleus’ son wert thou at the first; thereafter Menander, Then what thou seemest now, and hereafter shalt turn to a sunbeam. Four score seasons of life shall be given thee over a hundred. 





But as a matter of fact he died insane at seventy
without awaiting the fulfilment of the god’s promise!