No wonder you have forced your way into the Senate House: no bars or bolts
 can hold against you. Only do say what species of god you want the fellow to be
 made. An Epicurean god he cannot be: for they take no trouble and cause
 none. Compare Diogenes Laertius x, 139: τὸ : The Blessed and Incorruptible neither
 itself has trouble nor causes trouble to another. A
 Stoic, then? How can he be globular, as Varro Author or Saturae Menippeae (now lost), which no doubt burlesqued the Stoic
 perfect man, totus teres atque
 rotundus. says, without a head or any other projection?
 There is in him something of the Stoic god, as I can see
 now: he has neither heart nor head. Upon my word, if he had asked this boon from
 Saturn, he would not have got it, though he kept up Saturn's feast all the year
 round, a truly Saturnalian prince. A likely thing he will get it from Jove, whom
 he condemned for incest as far as in him lay: Because Juno
 was et soror et coniunx. for he killed his
 son-in-law Silanus, because Silanus had a sister, a most charming girl, called
 Venus by all the world, and he preferred to call her Juno. Why, says he, I want
 to know why, his own sister? Read your books, stupid: you may go half-way at
 Athens, the whole way at Alexandria. Marriage with a half-sister was
 allowed at Athens; the Egyptian royal family married brother and
 sister. Because the mice lick meal Another proverb of uncertain
 meaning; probably because people like nice things at Rome, as they do
 everywhere. at Rome, you say. Is this creature to mend
 our crooked ways? What goes on in his own closet he knows not; Perhaps
 alluding to a mock marriage of Silius and Messalina. and now he
 searches the regions of the sky, wants to be a god. Is it not enough that he has
 a temple in Britain, that savages worship him and pray to him as a god, so that
 they may find a fool Again μωροῦ for
 θεοῦ as in ch. 6. to have mercy
 upon them?