Arnobius

“ I should wish, therefore, to see Jupiter, the father of the gods, who ever controls the world and men, [1] adorned with the horns of an ox, shaking his hairy ears, with his feet contracted into hoofs, chewing green grass, and having behind him [2] a tail, hams, [3] and ankles smeared over with soft excrement, [4] and bedaubed with the filth cast forth. ”

“ If that Jupiter of whom you speak, whoever he is, really [12] existed, or was affected by any sense of wrong, would it not be fitting that, [13] roused to anger, he should remove the earth from under our feet, extinguish the light of the sun and moon; nay more, that he should throw all things into one mass, as of old? ”