All those thrown by Deucalion were immediately changed into men, while those cast by Pyrrha became women. […] In Greece, there lived in those olden times a maiden by the name of Arachne. […] Apollo then changed his lifeless clay into a cypress tree, which he declared should henceforth be used to shade the graves of those who had been greatly beloved through life. […] The offerings of young lovers were ever those which found most favour in her sight. […] They secured the punishment of those who had incurred their wrath in various ways, and the following story is told of the murder of Ibycus, a poet dear to Apollo.

Far back among the mists of antiquity, at the remotest beginnings of the shadowy centuries, sits enthroned a Being, who in His infinite might and power brought mankind, the universe, and all animate and inanimate things into existence, and who rewards those of His children who do His will, and punishes those who disobey His commands. […] Jupiter so frequently addressed his son Bacchus by those words that the phrase at last became one of his names. […] The few who’re cleansed to those abodes repair, And breathe in ample fields the soft Elysian air.” […] A name given to Juno by those writers who considered her the goddess of money. […] He had the gift of prophecy, and foretold fates; but he had also the power of assuming various shapes, which enabled him to escape from the importunities of those who were anxious to consult him.