There were a great multitude of sea-nymphs besides the Oceanides and Nereides. […] Being regarded as implacable, these deities were objects of great terror. […] He caused to be built and equipped, a great number of ships, which carried on a great trade, and defended the maritime state of Corinth. […] This god was, like the Saturn of the Romans, a great improver of rude men. […] All the heathens attached great reverence to the sanctity of an oath.