To be in heaven is close to the foregoing: it means to be extraordinarily fortunate and renowned. Cicero to Atticus, book 2: 'Bibulus is in heaven, I don't know why, but they praise him as if "One man by his delay had saved our all."' The same elsewhere to the same: 'If however the bargain as respects myself is not observed, I am in heaven.' Elsewhere again: 'It is not incongruous that the tyrannicides should be layded to the skies.' Horace alludes to this when he says, 'They link me with the gods above,' that is, they call me blessed and famous. And theocritus in the Wayfarers, 'I shall rise to heaven before your eyes.' On the other hand, those who suddenly fall from the height of felicity are said to have 'fallen from the stars.' Cicero to Atticus, book 2, speaking of Pompey: 'What a sight! Only Crassus could enjoy it, not so others. He was a fallen star, one looked upon him as a man who had slid rather than moved of his own volition.' But consider, reader, whether this saying does not rather belong more to the one we have quoted elsewhere: 'Here's a third, Cato, fallen from the skies!' This is related to the phrase 'to laud to the skies,' meaning to give the highest praise. Livy, decade 1 book 2: 'The talk runs through all the town: they laud the Fabii to the skies.'