The same name is frequently explained in half a dozen different ways. The same deity is reduced by different interpreters to half a dozen elements of nature. […] We find, moreover, in some cases a great variety of symbolic explanations of the same myth, one with as great claim to credence as another, since they spring from the same source, the caprice or fancy of the expounder. […] He followed her close, offering at the same time his prayers to Phœbus. […] He consented, but, at the same time, warned her that her beauty would defeat her purpose.