The following digression will I hope be excused. […] Otherwise the great publishers will be almost the only gainers by a change in the law ; for most authors will transfer to them all their rights if they have the power to do it. […] How far this theory is well founded, and whether it will apply with equal force to other mythologies as to that of Greece, is a question which we will not now discuss. […] We will now briefly state the principal arguments on both sides. […] Filled with awe, he conceals his face in the clothes and sues for mercy ; but the goddess reassures him, and informs him that she will bear a son, whom she will commit to the mountain-nymphs to rear, and will bring to him when in his fifth year.