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urging imitation. And immediately, falling in love with Osiris their own brother, and Typhon the other brother, their own brothers march against one another. And great is the shame of a goddess who felt no respect for her own brother, but was in love and not content with men from outside, but even went as far as 104.9 her own brother. Not only that, but she also points out fratricide to her dearest ones because of the insatiability of her own desire. 104.10 And she bears one child, Horus, for whom she was unable to establish who his true father really is. For if she names Typhon, she doubts he is not his parent; but if Osiris, who could establish the accuracy of this? 104.11 And such a mother taught him that it was a fine thing to become a god, taking him and prostituting herself in Tyre for ten years. 104.12 And as for Serapis, called King Apis, the children of the Sinopeans, by making him a god, served tyranny rather than truth. 105.1 These are the wages of the gods honored among the Egyptians, to tell of which in detail * much time will be spent. But the Greeks, who think they are something in themselves, philosophizing only with words and sharpness of tongue and not with deeds, have run aground more than all others; 105.2 who bring down Cronus from Ouranos, saying that he was born from Ouranos and had cut off the private parts of his own father—O wicked deed, and shameful notion; who, if he had not been cut, there would have been many 105.3 Cronuses. But this noble one, who had gone as far as his father, was not satisfied with his first impiety, but while young he wrongs his 105.4 father, and having become old, his own children, swallowing Poseidon and Pluto, but seeking Zeus and being tricked by Rhea and swallowing a large rock wrapped in swaddling clothes instead of the baby; 105.5 as if a god, perhaps *. And being of noble parents, so to speak, his child, Zeus by name, was likely to become the husband of all women, and his son Hermes. And would that he had become someone's dowried husband according to the laws, and not always a secret adulterer and evildoer; 105.6 for he corrupts Penelope, becoming a goat for pleasure; and a goat, I think, he became because of the vigor of the entanglement of his beard. 105.7 And to Danaë, Zeus, who is first called by us, became gold, in order to corrupt a chaste maiden shut up in her chamber; but he could never have become gold, but being a sorcerer, by bribing with gold 105.8 he deceived the maiden. And with Leda he again becomes a swan, signifying the taking wing of the fire of his 105.9 pleasure. And becoming an eagle, though never having flown, he sits preeminent as a teacher of corrupters of boys; never having become an eagle, but on a ship with a figurehead, named 'Eagle' because of its speed, he sailed past Troy and seizing Ganymede, the son of the king of the Trojans, 105.10 he accomplished the corruption. And to Pasiphaë he became a bull, and likewise also to Europa. 106.1 And why should I speak of the multitude of corruptions of this noble corrupter of virgins and teacher of corrupters? Whose tomb is clear to not a few. For in the island of Crete on the mountain called 106.2 Lasion it is pointed out to this day. And there have been not one or two Zeuses, but even three and four in number. For one of them is the aforementioned son of Cronus, who cast his own father into Tartarus in the Caucasian mountain, and another called Latiarius, from whom the gladiators have come, and another the tragedian, the one who also burned his hand. 106.3 Perhaps being a god he forgot that fire bites and he did not have the foreknowledge of the one who said to the satyr goat, who first found fire and

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μιμεῖσθαι παραινοῦντες. καὶ εὐθὺς μὲν Ὀσίρεως ἐρῶσαι τοῦ ἰδίου αὐτῶν ἀδελφοῦ Τυφῶνός τε τοῦ ἄλλου ἀδελφοῦ τοὺς ἰδίους ἀδελφοὺς κατ' ἀλλήλων στρατεύουσι. πολλὴ δὲ αἰσχύνη θεᾶς τῆς μήτε αἰδοῦς τοῦ ἰδίου ἀδελφοῦ αἰσθομένης, ἀλλ' ἐρώσης μὲν καὶ μὴ ἀρκουμένης τοῖς ἔξωθεν ἀνδράσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἕως 104.9 τοῦ ἰδίου ἀδελφοῦ φθανούσης. οὐ μόνον δέ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀδελφοκτονίαν διὰ τὴν ἰδίαν τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ἀκορεστίαν τοῖς φιλτάτοις ὑποδείκνυσι. 104.10 καὶ Ὧρον μὲν ἕνα γεννᾷ παῖδα, ἣ οὐκ ἠδυνήθη παραστῆσαι, τίς ὁ γνήσιος ἀληθῶς ἔστιν αὐτοῦ πατήρ. εἰ γὰρ μὲν Τυφῶνα ὀνομάσῃ, διστάζει μὴ οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῦ γονεύς· εἰ δὲ τὸν Ὄσιριν, τίς τούτου 104.11 τὴν ἀκρίβειαν παραστήσειε; καλὸν δὲ θεὸν αὐτὸν γενέσθαι ἡ τοιαύτη μήτηρ ἐδίδασκε, παραλαβοῦσα αὐτὸν καὶ ἐν Τύρῳ πορνεύσασα 104.12 ἔτη δέκα. Σέραπιν δὲ τὸν Ἆπιν βασιλέα καλούμενον Σινωπέων παῖδες θεοποιοῦντες τυραννίδι μᾶλλον ἐδούλευσαν ἤπερ ἀληθείᾳ. 105.1 Ταῦτά ἐστι τῶν παρ' Αἰγυπτίοις τιμωμένων θεῶν τὰ ἐπίχειρα, ὧν τὸ κατὰ μέρος εἰπεῖν * πολὺς χρόνος ἀναλωθήσεται. Ἕλληνες δὲ οἱ δοκοῦντές τι εἶναι ἐν ἑαυτοῖς, λόγοις μόνον καὶ ὀξύτητι γλώσσης φιλοσοφοῦντες καὶ οὐκ ἔργοις, πλέον πάντων ἐξώκειλαν· 105.2 οἵτινες κατάγουσι Κρόνον ἀπ' Οὐρανοῦ, λέγοντες αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ Οὐρανοῦ γεγεννῆσθαι καὶ τὰ μόρια τοῦ ἰδίου πατρὸς τετμηκέναι ὢ κακῆς πράξεως, αἰσχρᾶς τε ὑπονοίας· ὃς εἰ μὴ ἐτμήθη, πολλοὶ 105.3 Κρονίωνες ἦσαν. οὗτος δὲ ὁ γεννάδας, ὁ ἕως πατρὸς πεφθακώς, οὐκ ἠρκέσθη ἐπὶ τῇ πρώτῃ ἀσεβείᾳ, ἀλλὰ νέος μὲν ὢν ἀδικεῖ τὸν 105.4 πατέρα, πρεσβύτης δὲ γεγονὼς τὰ ἴδια αὐτοῦ τέκνα, Ποσειδῶνα μὲν καταπίνων καὶ Πλούτωνα, ∆ία δὲ ἀναζητῶν καὶ ἐμπαιζόμενος ὑπὸ τῆς Ῥέας καὶ πέτραν μεγάλην ἐσπαργανωμένην ἀντὶ βρέφους κατα105.5 πίνων· ὡσεὶ θεὸς τάχα *. εὐγενῶν δὲ γονέων ὑπάρχων ἵν' οὕτως εἴπω ὁ τούτου παῖς, Ζεὺς τούτῳ ὄνομα, ἐκινδύνευε πασῶν τῶν γυναικῶν ἀνὴρ γίνεσθαι καὶ ὁ τούτου υἱὸς Ἑρμῆς. καὶ εἴθε κατὰ τοὺς νόμους ὑποπροίκιός τις ἐγένετο καὶ μὴ κλεψίγαμος πάντοτε 105.6 καὶ κακεργάτης· Πηνελόπην μὲν γὰρ φθείρει, δι' ἡδονὴν τράγος γενόμενος· τράγος δὲ οἶμαι ἐγίνετο διὰ τὸ ἀκμαῖον τῆς τοῦ γενείου 105.7 παραπλοκῆς. πρὸς ∆ανάην δὲ Ζεὺς ὁ πρῶτον ἡμῖν καλούμενος χρυσὸς ἐγίνετο, ἵνα παρθένον σώφρονα θαλαμευομένην φθείρῃ· χρυσὸς δὲ ἐκεῖνος οὐκ ἠδύνατο γενέσθαι ποτέ, ἀλλὰ γόης ὢν διὰ 105.8 χρυσοῦ δωροδοκῶν τὴν παρθένον ἠπάτησε. καὶ παρὰ μὲν Λήδᾳ κύκνος αὖθις γίνεται, τὴν ἀναπτέρωσιν τῆς πυρώσεως τῆς αὐτοῦ 105.9 ἡδονῆς ἀνασημαίνων. ἀετὸς δὲ γενόμενος μηδεπώποτε ἀναπετασθεὶς παιδοφθόρων διδάσκαλος προκαθέζεται· μηδέποτε ἀετὸς γενόμενος, ἀλλ' ἐν πλοίῳ παρασήμῳ, ἀετῷ ὀνομαζομένῳ διὰ τὸ τάχος, Τροίαν παραπλεύσας καὶ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ βασιλέως Τρώων 105.10 Γανυμήδην ἁρπάσας τὴν φθορὰν ἀπειργάσατο. καὶ πρὸς Πασιφάην δὲ ταῦρος ἐγένετο, ὡσαύτως καὶ πρὸς Εὐρώπην. 106.1 Καὶ τί μοι τὰ πλήθη λέγειν τῶν φθορῶν τοῦ γενναίου τούτου παρθένων φθορέως καὶ φθορέων διδασκάλου; οὗ τὸ μνῆμα οὐκ ὀλίγοις ἐστὶ δῆλον. ἐν Κρήτῃ γὰρ τῇ νήσῳ ἐν τῷ ὄρει τῷ 106.2 λεγομένῳ Λασίῳ ἕως δεῦρο δακτυλοδεικτεῖται. Ζῆνες δὲ οὐχ εἷς ἢ δύο, ἀλλὰ καὶ τρεῖς καὶ τέσσαρες γεγόνασι τὸν ἀριθμόν. ὁ μὲν γὰρ εἷς αὐτῶν Κρονίδης ὁ προειρημένος, ὁ ταρταρώσας τὸν ἴδιον αὐτοῦ πατέρα ἐν τῷ Καυκασίῳ ὄρει, ὁ δ' ἄλλος Λατιάριος λεγόμενος, ἐξ οὗπερ οἱ μονομάχοι γεγόνασιν, ἄλλος δὲ ὁ τραγῳδός, ὁ καὶ τὴν 106.3 χεῖρα αὐτοῦ καύσας. τάχα δὲ θεὸς ὢν ἐπελάθετο ὅτι δάκνει τὸ πῦρ καὶ οὐκ εἶχε τὴν πρόγνωσιν τοῦ λέγοντος τράγῳ τῷ σατύρῳ, εὑρόντι πρότερον τὸ πῦρ καὶ