These deities, so like to man in form, were held to exceed him far in power and knowledge, but to be, like him, under the influence of passion and appetite. […] In like manner we find twelve Olympians, similarly divided. […] He was also named like the other gods from the places where he was worshiped, ex. gr. […] The former would seem to have been placatory, like Eumenides that of the Erinnyes. […] For, like Homer.