text:  For Psammetichus finding no satisfactory solution to his enquiry on this subject devised the following plan: He took two infant boys born of humble parents and committed them to the care of a shepherd to be educated in this manner--that he should not permit any one to utter a sound in their hearing but should keep them by themselves in a lonely house admitting only she-goats at stated times to suckle them and rendering them the other requisite services himself