正文 7.19 Concerning the Interpretations Which Compose the Reason of the Worship of Saturn.(2 / 2)

Jupiter. For they affirm times without number, and that emphatically, that the heavens are Jupiter. Thus those things which come not of the truth, do very often, without being impelled by any one, themselves overthrow one another. He says that Saturn was called Kronos, which in the Greek tongue signifies a space of time, because, without that, seed cannot be productive. These and many other things are said concerning Saturn, and they are all referred to seed. But Saturn surely, with all that great power, might have sufficed for seed. Why are other gods demanded for it, especially Liber and Libera, that is, Ceres?–concerning whom again, as far as seed is concerned, he says as many things as if he had said nothing concerning Saturn.