The Parliament of the Gods (9)

Or must I omit him also, for the sake of Ganymede? But Attis at all events, Zeus, and Corybas[*] and Sabazius[*]—how did they get trundled in upon us?

Or Mithras yonder, the Mede, with his caftan and his cap, who does not even speak Greek, so that he cannot even understand if one drinks his health? The result is that the Scythians—the Getae among them—seeing all this have told us to go hang, and now confer immortality on their own account and elect as gods whomsoever they will, in the selfsame way that Zamolxis, a slave, obtained fraudulent admission to the roster, getting by with it somehow or other.[*]