God was the beginning, and yet it seems to our finite minds, that something must have brought Him into existence, and we conclude that back again of that creating Power must have been another originating cause, and perhaps still another, and so on without limitation. […] The elopement of his wife Helen with Paris was the cause of the siege of Troy. […] The Romans always sacrificed to this goddess before they went to war, because they wished to signify that they never took up arms but in the cause of justice. […] It had been predicted that he would be the cause of the destruction of Troy, and his father therefore ordered him to be strangled as soon as he was born; but the slave who had been entrusted with this mission took the child to Mount Ida, and left it there. […] “The changeful Proteus, whose prophetic mind, The secret cause of Bacchus’ rage divined.”