In his terror he uttered a prayer to Dionysos and fled to a tree, up which he climbed. […] Like his father he was addicted to astronomy ; he first taught the doctrine of the sphere, whence he was said to support the heavens. […] The claims of this youth to a celestial origin being disputed by Epaphos the son of Zeus, he journeyed to the palace of his sire, from whom he extracted an unwary oath that he would grant him whatever he asked. […] As he was not one of the Olympian gods he was not honoured with temples in Greece, but he had altars at Corinth, Argos, and some other places. […] Apollo is the friend of man, he protects his worshipers, and he punishes the unjust and impious.