Lucian of Samosata

“ Tumble, thou firm, round, delicate Creature: I shall tumble too; tumble Thee, Ganymede.
Gan. O Jupiter, your Words cause a Strange Emotion in me. If you shou’d not like it, you will remember, it was your own seeking.
Jup. It shall be my seeking to fire you with fervid Kisses; to glue to you my pressing Limbs; to mix, and make one common Essence with you. Mercury, pledge him Immortality in a Cup of Nectar, that invigorated he may meet the nervous Joy. Now and but now, I find myself in Heaven. ”

“ The Heaven of Heavens is now your Habitation; and you may far better benefit your Father by benign Influence, than by keeping Sheep. Your Country too may experience your favourable Aspect. Milk and Cheese must yield Place for the future to Nectar and Ambrosia; the Care of Cattle to the Office of waiting on your enamour’d Jupiter: And what is more than all I have told you; your Beauty, upon which Time, ere long, wou’d have laid his shrivelling Hand, shall bloom for ever, refined to brighter Radiance. ”

“ Exquisite Creature, that thrillest every Particle of my Frame, have you ne’er heard of Jupiter, or, seen on Gargarus the celebrated Temple, where Art has labour’d Nature’s radiant Product to such a Curiosity? ”