Lactantius,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VII, The Divine Institutes…
(1885)
“ But Apollo, his father, did not disdain to take charge of another’s flock that he might receive a wife; [2] and when he had unintentionally killed a boy whom he loved, he inscribed his own lamentations on a flower. Mars, a man of the greatest bravery, was not free from the charge of adultery, since he was made a spectacle, being bound with a chain together with the adulteress. ”
