{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/002/0020199.htm","path":"chr/ecf/002/0020199.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/002/0020199.htm","text":"But among the Greeks, also, those who are eminent in poetry and history say the same thing. Thus of Heracles:\u2014\n \u201cThat lawless wretch, that man of brutal strength,\nDeaf to Heaven\u2019s voice, the social rite transgressed.\u201d 809\nSuch being his nature, deservedly did he go mad, and deservedly did he light the funeral pile and burn himself to death. Of Asklepius, Hesiod says:\u2014\n \u201cThe mighty father both of gods and men\nWas filled with wrath, and from Olympus\u2019 top\nWith flaming thunderbolt cast down and slew\nLatona\u2019s well-lov\u2019d son\u2014such was his ire.\u201d 810\n \u201cBut even wisdom is ensnared by gain.\nThe brilliant bribe of gold seen in the hand\nEv\u2019n him 811 perverted: therefore Kronos\u2019 son\nWith both hands quickly stopp\u2019d his vital breath,\nAnd by a bolt of fire ensured his doom.\u201d 812\nEither, therefore, they were gods and did not hanker after gold\u2014\n \u201cO gold, the fairest prize to mortal men,\nWhich neither mother equals in delight,\nNor children dear\u201d 813 \u2014\nfor the Deity is in want of nought, and is superior to carnal desire, nor did they die; or, having been born men, they were wicked by reason of ignorance, and overcome by love of money. What more need I say, or refer to Castor, or Pollux, or Amphiaraus, who, having been born, so to speak, only the other day, men of men, are looked upon as gods, when they imagine even Ino after her madness and its consequent sufferings to have become a goddess?\n \u201cSea-rovers will her name Leucothea.\u201d\u00a0814\n \n \u201cAugust Pal\u00e6mon, sailors will invoke.\u201d\nAscribed by Seneca to the Bellerophon of Eurip.\n145:814\nFrom the Ino, a lost play of Eurip.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II: ATHENAGORAS: Chapter XXIX.\u2014Proof of the Same from the Poets.","type":"page"}