After the conflict had commenced between Heathenism and Christianity, the allegorising principle was applied to the former with still greater assiduity than heretofore. […] Ephorus and Theopompus were those who devoted most attention to them, as their fragments still remaining show. […] Yet still we must not always expect to find in poets all the knowledge of the age they live in ; they love to imitate their predecessors, they often are unacquainted with the advance of knowledge, they write for the people, who still retain old prejudices. […] At all periods of the Grecian literature we find the character of the ‘pure (ἁγνὸς) god,’ as he was emphatically called, still the same. […] She still roams on, persecuted and subjected to numerous trials by Venus.

Suppose that one could fix upon the terminal point, we would still fancy something beyond that, and then some period still more remote would present itself, and so on ad infinitum. […] In the form of this flower she is still supposed to be turning toward Sol, a name of Apollo. […] George, and is still invoked by the Turks when they go to war. […] She was very generally worshiped by the ancients, and her temple at Athens, the Parthenon, still remains. […] She was changed into a lark, and the king into a hawk, and he still pursues his daughter, intending to punish her for her treachery.