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Chapter
XVI.—Wickedness of Jupiter.
“But I shall begin with the most royal Zeus,
whose father Kronos, having, as you say, devoured his own children, and
having shorn off the members of his father Uranus with a sickle of
adamant, showed to those who are zealous for the mysteries of the gods
an example of piety towards parents and of love towards children.
And Jupiter himself bound his own father, and imprisoned him in
Tartarus; and he also punishes the other gods.1039
| 1039 Wieseler proposes
θείους instead of
θεούς;
and he punishes his uncles also , as in vi. 2, 21. | And for those who wish to do things
not to be spoken of, he begat Metis, and devoured her. But Metis
was seed; for it is impossible to devour a child. And for an
excuse to abusers of themselves with mankind, he carries away
Ganymedes. And as a helper of adulterers in their adultery, he is
often found an adulterer. And to those who wish to commit incest
with sisters, he sets the example in his intercourse with his sisters
Hera and Demeter, and the heavenly Aphrodite, whom some call
Dodona.1040
| 1040 This is properly
regarded as a mistake for Dione, or Didone, which is another form of
the name Dione. | And to those
who wish to commit incest with their daughters, there is a wicked
example from his story, in his committing incest with Persephone.
But in myriads of instances he acted impiously, that by reason of his
excessive wickedness the fable of his being a god might be received by
impious men.
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