Orpheus, Pythagoras, Thales, and other founders of Grecian philosophy and mythology, studied in Egypt; and having learned the doctrines of its priests, introduced them, modelled agreeably to their own ideas, into their own country. […] In short, almost every nation had its own Jupiter. […] The deities determined in favour of the latter, who consequently gave her own name to the city. […] This was an expedition undertaken to recover some treasures, which had been carried thither from their own country. […] The Arabians had, likewise, a great number of other idols; each tribe and family maintaining its own appropriate deity.

His own hounds came up, and tore him in pieces. […] Her priests, called the Bellonarii, offered their own blood, from wounds inflicted on their thighs and bodies. […] Pygmalion could not help falling in love with his own workmanship, and begged Venus to make it into a living woman. […] He killed and quartered his own son Pelops, and served up his limbs as food for them. […] She was painted in the form of a woman, with the inscription of her own name, Eternity.