 Apparently the two young men were the twins and they had rewarded the poet's interest in them by thus saving his life.Simonides later benefited from the tragedy by deriving a system of mnemonics from it (see The inventor).Quintilian dismisses the story as a fiction because "the poet nowhere mentions the affair, although he was not in the least likely to keep silent on a matter which brought him such glory ..." This however was not the only miraculous escape that his piety afforded him.