Arnobius

“ Did we ever write that the gods for hire endured slavery, as Hercules at Sardis [3] for lust and wantonness; as the Delian Apollo, who served Admetus, as Jove’s brother, who served the Trojan Laomedon, whom the Pythian alsoserved, but with his uncle; as Minerva, who gives light, and trims the lamps to secret lovers? Is not he one of your poets, who represented Mars and Venus as wounded by men’s hands? Is not Panyassis one of you, who relates that father Dis and queenly Juno were wounded by Hercules? ”

“ The reading translated is an emendation by Jortin, adopted by Orelli.↑ Sardibus,—a conjecture of Ursinus, adopted by LB., Hild., and Oehler for the ms. sordibus; for which the others read sordidi—“for the sake of base lust.”↑ Lit., “the masculine one.”↑ As this seems rather extravagant when said of one of the immortals, læsam, “hurt,” has been proposed by Meursius.↑ Castor and Pollux.↑ Lit., “contained.”↑ The ms. ”