That is, they left off paganism; you told me that was the name of the old religion, fifteen hundred years ago. […] But Pluto heeded not; nor was Proserpine unwilling to be carried off. […] Some pretty girls were playing in a meadow, and a rude man carried off one of them. […] Then the attendants said a bull carried her off. […] Perseus proposed to cut off the head of Medusa for Polydectes.