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Metamorphosis is told in fables about men; but among you even the gods are transformed. Rhea becomes a tree, and Zeus a serpent for the sake of Persephone; the sisters of Phaethon become poplars, and Leto a paltry animal, on whose account the place now called Delos was named Ortygia. Tell me, does a god become a swan, and take on the form of an eagle, and pride himself on his pederasty by reason of Ganymede's wine-pouring? Why should I revere gods who take bribes and grow angry if they do not receive? Let these have fate; the planets I will not worship. What is the lock of Berenice? And where were her stars before the aforesaid woman died? And how is the dead Antinous set up as a fair youth in the moon? Who is it that raised him up—unless it be that someone, deriding the gods as one who for hire by perjury raises up kings, was believed when he claimed that this one too had ascended into heaven, and, theologizing in like manner, was deemed worthy of honor and gift? Why have you plundered God from me? Why do you dishonor his creation? You sacrifice a sheep, and the same you worship; there is a bull in heaven, and you slay his image. The Kneeler crushes an evil creature; and the eagle that devoured the man-fashioner Prometheus has been honored. The swan is fair, because it was an adulterer; and fair too are the Dioscuri who live on alternate days, the ravishers of the daughters of Leucippus. Better is Helen, who left the auburn-haired Menelaus and followed after the turbaned and gold-laden Paris. Just and temperate too is the man who translated her, the woman who played the harlot, to the Elysian fields. But neither has the daughter of Tyndareus been immortalized; and wisely did Euripides bring in the slaying of the aforesaid woman by Orestes.