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Portrait of Tertullian Tertullian Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Apologetic… (1885)

In the morning, on going out of the temple very early, she is solicited by a young man—“a third Hercules,” so to speak. [5] He invites her home. She complies, remembering that Hercules had told her that it would be for her advantage. He then, to be sure, obtains permission that they should be united in lawful wedlock (for none was allowed to have intercourse with the concubine of a god without being punished for it) ; the husband makes her his heir. By and by, just before her death, she bequeathed to the Roman people the rather large estate which she had obtained through Hercules.
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Portrait of Tertullian Tertullian Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Apologetic… (1885)

They [1] relate that his temple-warder [2] happened to be playing at dice in the temple alone; and in order to represent a partner for himself in the game, in the absence of an actual one, he began to play with one hand for Hercules and the other for himself. (The condition was,) that if he won the stakes from Hercules, he should with them procure a supper and a prostitute; if Hercules, however, proved the winner, I mean his other hand, then he should provide the same for Hercules. The hand of Hercules won.
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