These sacrifices were often accompanied by prayers, music, dancing, and the like. […] In like manner the horrible noise of that volcano was compared to the redoubled strokes of the Cyclops on their anvils. […] In like manner he sent forth the three Parcæ, the serpent Python, Nox, Tartarus, and so forth. […] The Fauns, his servants, and the Satyrs, who watched over the vineyards, woods, and fields, and who were usually found in the train of Bacchus, had their upper part like a man and their lower parts like a shaggy goat. […] The usual offerings were lambs, sheep, goats, and the like.

But being, like all the gods, immortal, he was supposed to be still in existence, though possessing no longer either influence or authority. […] Arion* was a horse, the offspring of Poseidon and Demeter*, which had the power of speech, the feet on the right side like those of a man, and the rest of the body like a horse. […] The insulted deity caused his ears to grow in length and shape like those of an ass. […] He had horns sprouting from his forehead, beard and feet like a goat. […] The shapeless vapors which arise from the waters, and through which, like a huge eye, the sun sheds a sickly light, assume strange and gigantic forms.