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could ever have happened, but being a sorcerer, he deceived the maiden by bribing her with 105.8 gold. And with Leda, he becomes a swan again, signifying the taking wing of the fire of his 105.9 pleasure. And becoming an eagle, never having flown, he sets himself forth as a teacher of corrupters of boys; never having become an eagle, but in 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 with Pasiphae he became a bull, and likewise with Europa. 106.1 And why should I recount the multitude of corruptions of this noble corrupter of virgins and teacher of corrupters? His tomb is known to not a few. For on the island of Crete, on the mountain 106.2 called Lasius, it is pointed out to this day. And there were not one or two Zeuses, but three and four in number. For one of them was the aforementioned son of Cronus, who cast his own father into Tartarus on Mount Caucasus; and another was called Latiarius, from whom the gladiators came into being; and another was the tragic one, who also burned 106.3 his hand. Perhaps, being a god, he forgot that fire bites and did not have the foreknowledge of the one who said to the goat, the satyr, when he first found fire and approached to kiss it, 'Do not touch it, goat; for if you touch 106.4 it, you will burn your beard.' And there were not one Athena, but many: one who roamed and wandered about Lake Tritonis, another the daughter of Oceanus, yet another the daughter of Cronus, and many others. 106.5 Many Artemises: one was the Ephesian, another the daughter of Zeus, and likewise not a few others. And Dionysoi also: the Theban, another the son of Semele, the one of the Corybantes and the one torn apart by the Titans 106.6 and the one of the Curetes who initiated into the distribution of flesh. And Heracles, called by them the averter of evil, all of whose deeds I will pass over in silence, but I will point out one from among them all which is perhaps praised by them: it will suffice for him to undergo this labor, that salvation might come to the world. For if he had not corrupted fifty 106.7 virgins in one night, how was the world to be saved? Rather, it would have been destroyed. And simply I confess to you, I shrink from writing down their evil deeds in a list. 106.8 Moreover, most cruel kings and tyrants, having had certain beloved ones and having buried them in the earth, having nothing more to grant them since they themselves were corruptible like them, for their goodwill have handed over their tombs to be worshipped as gods by their own subjects for the deception of the world under an evil pretext, 106.9 such as Antinous, who was buried in Antinoöpolis, and lying in a pleasure-boat was so established by Hadrian. And Timogenes in Asia, and Canopus the pilot of Menelaus and his wife Enmenouthis, buried in Alexandria, are honored on the shore of the sea, twelve stades distant, and Marnas the slave of Asterius the Cretan among the Gazaeans, and Casius the ship-owner among the Pelusiotes. 107.1 When, therefore, you carefully examine all these things in the midst of the church, a bad † example of a deadly path * you release * those who were so brought forward, and others you bring from adultery to self-control and not only do you deliver them from secret marriage, but also to * despise their own wife in self-control, since “the time is short,” as the holy apostle says, and you instruct fornicators, so that they may not be punished for having committed an unlawful deed before God and men. 107.2 And when, laboring through word and through deeds, you hand over all these things, you persuade them to accept everything from you, having first done all things in deed and having formed them in yourselves, the words

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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 προσελθόντι φιλῆσαι «μὴ ἅψῃ, τράγε· ἁψά106.4 μενος γὰρ σοῦ ἐμπρήσεις τὰ γένεια». Ἀθηναῖ δὲ γεγόνασιν οὐ μία, ἀλλὰ πολλαί· μία μὲν ῥεμβομένη καὶ περὶ τὴν Τριτωνίδα λίμνην ἀλωμένη, ἄλλη δὲ ἡ Ὠκεανοῦ, ἑτέρα δὲ ἡ Κρόνου καὶ πολλαὶ ἄλλαι. 106.5 Ἀρτέμιδες πολλαί· μία μὲν ἡ Ἐφεσία, ἄλλη δὲ ἡ τοῦ ∆ιὸς καὶ ἄλλαι ὡσαύτως οὐκ ὀλίγαι. καὶ ∆ιόνυσοι δὲ ὁ Θηβαῖος, ἄλλος δὲ ὁ Σεμέλης, ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν Κορυβάντων καὶ ὁ ὑπὸ τῶν Τιτάνων διασπώ106.6 μενος καὶ Κουρήτων ὁ τὴν κρεωνομίαν μυῶν. Ἡρακλῆς δὲ ὁ λεγόμενος παρ' αὐτοῖς ἀλεξίκακος, οὗ τὰς πράξεις πάσας ἀποσιωπήσω, μίαν δὲ ἀπὸ πασῶν τὴν παρ' αὐτοῖς τάχα ἐπαινουμένην ὑποδείξω· ἀρκέσει τούτῳ τὸν κάματον τοῦτον ὑποστῆναι, ἵνα τῷ βίῳ σωτηρία γένηται. εἰ μὴ γὰρ ἔφθειρεν ἐν μιᾷ νυκτὶ πεντήκοντα 106.7 παρθένους, πῶς ὁ κόσμος ἐσῴζετο; μᾶλλον δὲ ὠλώλει. καὶ ἁπλῶς ὁμολογῶ σοι, περικακῶ τὰς κακὰς αὐτῶν πράξεις καταλογάδην ἀνα106.8 γράψαι. ἔτι δὲ βασιλεῖς καὶ τύραννοι ἀπηνέστατοι, ἐπιποθήτους τινὰς ἐσχηκότες καὶ τούτους ἐν γῇ κατορύξαντες, πλέον τι μὴ ἔχοντες τούτοις χαρίσασθαι οἷα δὴ καὶ αὐτοὶ φθαρτοὶ κατ' αὐτοὺς ὄντες, εἰς τὴν ἐκείνων εὔνοιαν τοὺς τάφους αὐτῶν ἐπὶ πλάνῃ τοῦ βίου τοῖς ἰδίοις ὑπηκόοις ἐπὶ κακῇ προφάσει ὡς θεῶν θρῃσκεύεσθαι παρα106.9 δεδώκασιν, ὡς ὁ Ἀντίνους ὁ ἐν Ἀντινόου κεκηδευμένος, καὶ ἐν λουσορίῳ πλοίῳ κείμενος ὑπὸ Ἀδριανοῦ οὕτως κατετάγη. Τιμογένης δὲ ἐν Ἀσίᾳ, Κάνωβός τε ὁ Μενελάου κυβερνήτης καὶ ἡ τούτου γυνὴ Ἐνμενουθὶς ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ τεθαμμένοι τιμῶνται πρὸς τῇ ὄχθῃ τῆς θαλάσσης, ἀπὸ δεκαδύο σημείων διεστῶτες, καὶ Μαρνᾶς δοῦλος Ἀστερίου τοῦ Κρητὸς παρὰ Γαζαίοις, Κάσιος δὲ ὁ ναύκληρος παρὰ Πηλουσιώταις. 107.1 Ταῦτα οὖν πάντα ὅταν ἐν μέσῃ τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ ἀκριβοῦτε, κακὸν † ὑπόδειγμα θανασίμης ὁδοῦ * τοὺς * οὕτω προαχθέντας ὑπολύετε, ἄλλους δὲ ἀπὸ μοιχείας εἰς σωφροσύνην φέρετε καὶ μὴ μόνον τοῦ κλεψιγαμεῖν αὐτοὺς ἀπαλλάττετε, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς ἰδίας γαμετῆς κατὰ ἐγκράτειαν * καταφρονεῖν, ὡς ἔτι «ὁ καιρὸς συνεσταλμένος ἐστίν», ὥς φησιν ὁ ἱερὸς ἀπόστολος, πόρνους δὲ κατηχεῖτε, ἵνα μὴ τὴν ἀθέμιτον πρᾶξιν παρὰ θεῷ τε καὶ ἀνθρώποις ἐργασάμενοι 107.2 τιμωρηθῶσιν. καὶ ὅταν πάντα ταῦτα διὰ στόματος καὶ δι' ἔργων κάμνοντες παραδῶτε, πείθετε αὐτοὺς τὰ πάντα ἐγκαταδέξασθαι ὑμῶν, ἔργῳ πάντα πρῶτον πράξαντες καὶ ἐν αὑτοῖς ἀνατυπωσάμενοι, τοὺς λόγους