Passions so degrading, and actions so shameful, were attributed by the Heathens to the false divinities whom their deluded imaginations had devised, that from the contemplation of such a spectacle, the delicate mind must turn away with disgust; so that, without some modification, such histories are utterly improper to be presented to the attention of youth. […] How came the city of Athens to be so named after this Goddess? […] He was generally seen accompanying Bacchus, riding upon an ass, but so intoxicated, as to be almost incapable of keeping his seat. […] Over these columns, runs a ridge of stone, so cut, as to resemble a huge beam, which is richly adorned with carved work. […] These oaks were sprinkled with the blood of the victims offered to their Gods, so that the bark of the oldest of them was encrusted with it.