Arnobius

“ Can any greater insult be put upon your Jupiter, or is there anything else which will destroy and ruin the reputation of the chief of the gods, further than that you believe him to have been at times overcome by vicious pleasures, and to have glowed with the passion of a heart roused to lust after women? ”

“ And, not content to have ascribed these carnal unions to the venerable Saturn, [1] you affirm that the king of the world himself begot children even more shamefully than he was himself born and begotten. Of Hyperiona, [2] as his mother, you say, and Jupiter, who wields the thunderbolt, was born the golden and blazing Sun; of Latona and the same, the Delian archer, and Diana, [3] who rouses the woods ”

“ Or did he, not content with one wife, taking pleasure in concubines, mistresses, and courtezans, a lustful god, show [5] his incontinence in all directions, as is the custom with dissolute [6] youths; and in old age, after intercourse with numberless persons, did he renew his eagerness for pleasures now losing their zest? ”