Jupiter presented himself to him under the form of a battering-ram, and striking the earth, caused the grateful liquid to spring forth in abundance. […] Bacchus, however, inspired the monarch himself with an ardent desire of witnessing the orgies. […] On gems and all other pieces of antiquity, he is represented as amusing himself with childish diversions. […] the nectared draught Which Jove himself was to have quaffed! […] He once changed himself into a horse, to unite himself with the mare of Dardanus, by which he had a female progeny of twelve, so swift, that they ran or rather flew over the sea without wetting a foot.