But this principle does not apply in any way to literature. […] Sometimes she is winged, at other times not. […] This is surely not the order one might have anticipated. […] But enough of such mendacity : we should not have noticed it, were it not that the fashion of tracing the religion and institutions of Greece to Egypt is not yet extinct. […] Dying she deplores the fate, not of herself, but of her unborn babe.

Atys, in despair, could not restrain his fury. […] The trick could not deceive the goddess. […] It was not strictly a river, but a muddy marsh. […] Lies and calumnies could not approach it. […] The worship of the gods and that of the heroes were not the same.