"The goddess spoke, and both her thighs exposed:"

----in order to initiate her lovers, a thing she still does by means of figures: and after all, Phanes, and Ericapaeus, and he that swallows up all the other gods, and throws them up again, so that he may become father both of gods and men. Let these things be brought on the stage for the benefit of the wonderful audience of this theology, and over and above all this, let there be contrived allegories and exhibitions of miracles: and let the sermon, running wild from these premises, advance into pits and precipices of speculation that has no solid foundation.

Ὣς εἰποῦσα θεὰ, δοιοὺς ἀνεσύρατο μηροὺς, ἵνα τελέσῃ τοὺς ἐραστὰς, ἃ καὶ νῦν ἔτι τελεῖ τοῖς σχήμασιν. Ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ὁ Φάνης τε καὶ ὁ Ἠρικαπαῖος, καὶ ὁ πάντας καταπίνων τοὺς ἄλλους, εἶτ' ἀναδιδοὺς θεοὺς, ἵνα γένηται πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε. Ταῦτα ἐπεισκυκλείσθω τοῖς θαυμαστοῖς τῆς θεολογίας ἀκροαταῖς, εἶτ' ἐπινοείσθω τούτοις ἀλληγορήματα καὶ τερατεύματα: καὶ τῶν προκειμένων ἐκπίπτων ὁ λόγος εἰς βάραθρα χωρείτω, καὶ κρημνοὺς θεωρίας οὐκ ἐχούσης τὸ στάσιμον.