The number in Aeneas' household which transported to the land of the Latins was given variously in the legendary accounts of Aeneas, one being a hundred men.<ref name=Arp1>Arnold, p. 1.</ref> Another account gives that Aeneas' received an oracle that a "four-footed beast"<ref name=Arp1/> would deliver an omen, the worship of which type of animal, the Apostle Paul gave as an example of pagan folly in religion in the first chapter of his letter to the Romans.<ref>Romans 1:23 (first century AD</ref>