His death was brought about through his endeavors to preserve Deianira from the attacks of Nessus, the centaur, whom he killed. […] She was supposed to be constantly traveling about the earth in search of wickedness, which she punished with the greatest severity. […] Some of the ancients worshiped him as the god of the seas, and invariably invoked his aid when they were about to start on a voyage. […] His principal attendant was the three-headed dog Cerberus, and about his throne were the Eumenides, the Harpies, and the Furies. […] Festivals held in honor of Saturn about the 16th or 18th of December.

We are in the habit of supposing, that they regarded their fables in the same poetical light as ourselves; that they could not possibly put faith in Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto; in the sacrifice of innocent turtle doves, the libation of wine, and the notions about Tartarus and Ixion. […] No sun was lighted up, the world to view; No moon did yet her blunted horns renew; Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky; Nor poised, did on her own foundations lie; Nor seas about their shores the arms had thrown; But earth, and air, and water were in one. […] Asteria, her sister, disdaining the embraces of the God, threw herself into the sea, and was changed into the isle which bears the name of Delos; where Latona afterwards sought refuge from the fury of Juno, when about to overwhelm her, for her frailty with her husband. […]     “In her bower she lay, like a snow-wreath flung,     Mid flowers of brightest hue: Pouting roses about her hung, Violets ’neath her mantle sprung,     Shedding their light of blue. […] A ghastly horror in her eyes appears But yet she knows not what it is she fears, In vain she offers from herself to run, And drag’s about her what she strives to shun.