His name in the plural, Fauns, expressed a class of gamesome deities, like the Satyrs of the Greeks. […] Vesta (the Hestia of the Greeks) was a deity presiding over the public and private hearth. […] The Colchians were amazed; the Greeks shouted for joy. […] The apples are supposed by some to be the oranges of Spain, of which the Greeks had heard some obscure accounts. […] The imagination of the Greeks peopled all the regions of earth and sea with divinities, to whose agency it attributed those phenomena which our philosophy ascribes to the operation of the laws of nature.