Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Commodianus/The Instructions of Commodianus/Chapter 11

by Commodianus

X.—Neptune.

Ye make Neptune a god descended from Saturn; and he wields a trident that he may spear the fishes.  It is plain by his being thus provided that he is a sea-god.  Did not he himself with Apollo raise up walls for the Trojans?  How did that poor stone-mason become a god?  Did not he beget the cyclops-monster?  And was he himself when dead unable to live again, though his structure admitted of this?^[1]  Thus begotten, he begot who was already once dead.

Footnotes

1. We have changed marhus et into mortuus, and de suo into denuo.