Delian feasts were those which the Athenian, and the other Greek states celebrated every four years at Delos. […] His feasts were celebrated every three years, and were called orgies, from a word which signifies fury and impetuosity. […] But who can conceive her rapturous delight, when, instead of the fearful being she dreaded, she beheld one whose every limb, and every feature, shone with a radiant and celestial beauty. […] His education was entrusted by Juno to the god Priapus, who instructed him in dancing, and in every manly exercise. […] Fills every heart and dries up every fear; The record of a nation’s loud applause, Writes on their tombs in characters of brass.