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. ”
