MINUCIUS FELIX. 487 And allthesethings have been put forward with thisview, thata certainauthoritymight be gainedforthevices1of men. 33y these fictions,and such as these,and by liesof a more attractivekind,the minds of boys are corrupted; and with the same fablesclingingto them, they grow up even to the strengthof mature age ; and, poor wretches,they grow old in the same beliefs,although the truthis plain,ifthey will only seekafterit. For allthewritersof antiquity,both Greek and Eoman, have setforththatSaturn,the beginnerof this race and multitude,was a man. Nepos knows this,and Cas- siusin hishistory; and Thallusand Diodorus speak thesame thing. This Saturn then, driven from Crete by the fear of his raging son,had come to Italy,and, receivedby the hospitalityof Janus, taught those unskilledand rusticmen many things,— as,being something of a Greek, and polished, — to printlettersfor instance,to coin money, to make in struments. Therefore he preferredthat his hiding-place, because he had been safelyhidden [latent]there,shouldbe calledLatium ; and he gave a city,from hisown name, the name of Saturnia,and Janus,Janiculum,sothateachofthem left theirnames to the memory of posterity.Thereforeit was certainlya man thatfled,certainlya man who was con cealed,and the fatherof a man, and sprung from a man. He -was declared,however,to be the son of earthor of heaven, because among the Italianshe was of unknown parents; as even to thisday we callthosewho appear iinexpectedly,sent from heaven,thosewho are ignobleand unknown, sonsof the earth. His son J upiterreignedat Crete afterhisfatherwas driven out. There he died,therehe had sons. To thisday the cave of Jupiterisvisited,and hissepulchreisshown, and he is convictedof being human by thosevery sacredritesof his. CHAPTER XXIII. Argument. — Although theheathensacknowledgetheirkingsto be mortal,yet theyfeign tliattheyare gods even against 1 Otherwise,"judgments."