<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1413.tlg001.1st1K-eng1" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="chapter" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1413.tlg001.1st1K-eng1" n="25"><head>Pans and Satyrs</head><p>...<note anchored="true" resp="ed">The beginning of thos passage has been lost</note> because they lived in the mountains far away from women, whenever a woman did turn up, the Pans and Satyrs would all share her for sex. [They were thought to have the hair and the legs of goats because they neglected to wash and a stench hung around them. And here is the reason they were thought to be companions of Dionysos: they did the work of grape cultivation.]<note anchored="true" resp="ed">These sentences are likely an interpolation.</note> It’s just like now, when it comes to women who are available to all, we say that we all do them like Pans.</p></div><div type="textpart" subtype="chapter" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1413.tlg001.1st1K-eng1" n="26"><head>Asclepios</head><p>They say that Asclepios was struck down by a thunderbolt. Actually, the following would be more plausible. Asclepios established and advanced the field of medicine, but he died from a burning fever. Because of the burning heat, they say he was struck by a thunderbolt.</p></div><div type="textpart" subtype="chapter" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1413.tlg001.1st1K-eng1" n="27"><head>The Cap of Hades</head><p>It is said about the cap of Hades that if someone put it on, like Perseus did, they became invisible. Actually, the cap of Hades is the fated destination into which the dead depart and become invisible.</p></div></div></body></text></TEI>