Arnobius

“ For it is not likely that they have these members without a purpose, or that nature had wished in them to make sport of its own improvidence, [6] in providing them with members for which there would be no use. For as the hands, feet, eyes, and other members which form our body, [7] have been arranged for certain uses, each for its own end, so we may well [8] believe that these members have been provided to discharge their office; or it must be confessed that there is something without a purpose in the bodies of the gods, which has been made uselessly and in vain. ”

“ If, then, it is so,—that is, if the gods above beget other gods, and are subject to these conditions of sex, [3] and are immortal, and are not worn out, by the chills of age,—it follows, as a consequence, that the world [4] should be full of gods, and that countless heavens could not contain their multitude, inasmuch as they are both themselves ever begetting, and the countless multitude of their descendants, always being increased, is augmented by means of their offspring ”