As a punishment for this crime, he suffered incessant hunger and thirst, though he was surrounded by delicious fruits and sweet waters. […] They saw that men committed crimes, and that they suffered afflictions; and they presumed that malignant gods induced men to commit those crimes, and also that they brought evils upon mankind. […] The sight of a thyrsus became shocking to her, and she never went near mount Citheron; for there the recollection of her murdered son, and of her crime, were too painful to be endured. […] It shows me that to drink too much wine makes persons commit the worst of crimes. […] That head was afterward attached to the shield, but Minerva did not always carry it about; only when she designed to punish foe wicked, she clothed herself in her “gorgon-terrors,” in order to affright the bad, or to conclude their crimes by killing them.