Arnobius

“ And unless both sexes abandoned themselves to degrading pleasures in sensual embraces, [1] would there be no Jupiter, greatest of all; and even to this time would the divinities have no king, and heaven stand without its lord? And why do we marvel that you say Jove sprang from a woman’s womb, seeing that your authors relate that he both had a nurse, and in the next place maintained the life given to him by nourishment drawn from a foreign [2] breast? What say you, O men? ”