Saturn

Since Saturn did not spare his own sons, he persisted, of course, in not sparing the children of strangers — children whom their own parents offered, and gladly answered the summons, and caressed the infants lest they should be sacrificed weeping.

Infants were sacrificed to Saturn in Africa, openly, down to the proconsulship of Tiberius, who exposed the very priests upon the trees of his temple — those trees that overshadowed their crimes — on votive crosses, the soldiery of our own country being witness, which performed that very office for that proconsul.

3. But even now this holy crime is carried on in secret. It is not Christians alone whom your gods despise; nor is any crime forever rooted out, nor does any god change his ways.

And they meant Saturn to be that which contains the course and revolution of spaces and times.

For this old opinion filled Greece, that Caelus was mutilated by his son Saturn, and Saturn himself bound by his son Jove:

the third the Cretan, son of Saturn, whose tomb is shown in that island.

Why are others' children sacrificed to Saturn, if he spared his own?

of these, from Saturn and Ops, Neptune, Jupiter and Orcus, and the rest of the succession.

For if Jupiter reigned in Crete and Saturn in Italy and Isis in Egypt, men too have reigned, to whom indeed many are reported to have done service.

Moses, much more ancient even than Saturn by about nine hundred years — let alone than his great-grandsons — and certainly much more divine, who set forth the descents of the human race from the beginning of the world too, through the several births, by name and by time, sufficiently proving the divinity of the work out of the divination of his utterance.

The only one I shall perhaps laugh at is he who thought to persuade us that Saturn dreamed before all others;

and from these Saturn and Ops;

so that we should still possess over the government of the union, all the advantages generally reaped from “we are, gentlemen, your most obedient servants,” whilst the story of Saturn would be gradually reversed.

Along her heart.

And give its mother an eternal wound

That Saturn might not get him for his jaws,

Pherecydes reports that Saturn was crowned before all;

" Forsooth, was it by celebrating the Saturnalia and the Kalends of January that he pleased men?

As are the Minervalia to Minerva, so are the Saturnalia to Saturn, which it is necessary to celebrate even for the little slaves at the time of the Saturnalia.

when the ambition of a broader purple and the over-spreading of a Galatian red commends Saturn?

Will that one too please who changes his countenance with a razor, faithless toward his own face, which, not content to make next door to that of Saturn and Isis and Liber, he moreover exposes to the insults of slaps, as though he made sport of the Lord's precept?

and at the same time you deny that the rest are gods, when you call them by their own names — Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Minerva.

" But indeed it has been lawful in the world to appease the Diana of the Scythians, or the Mercury of the Gauls, or the Saturn of the Africans, with a human victim;