A god impels the wind; a god pours out the rivers; grapes are the gift of Bacchus; Ceres presides over the harvest; orchards are the care of Pomona. […] His education was entrusted by Juno to the god Priapus, who instructed him in dancing, and in every manly exercise. […] When the work was completed, Laomedon refused to reward the labours of the god, and in retribution, his territories were soon afterwards laid waste by the god of the sea, and his subjects visited with a pestilence sent by Apollo. […] Neptune, as god of the sea, was entitled to more power than any of the other deities, except Jupiter. […] He usually precedes the chariot of the god of the sea, sounding his shell, and is resembled, in this, by his sons the Tritons.

Momus was the god of laughter, and Plutus the god of wealth. […] I am the god of song and the lyre. […] I am Alpheus, the god of this stream.’ […] There the god reclines, his limbs relaxed with sleep. […] Trembling with fear, the god cheered me.