Apocolocyntosis Sect. 8

...It is no wonder why you have made an attack into the Curia: nothing is closed to you. Only tell us what sort of god you want him to become. He cannot be an Epicurean god: he has no problems himself nor does he give some to others. A Stoic god? How can he be "round" as Varro says, "without a head, and without a foreskin?" There is something in him of a Stoic god, now I see it: he has neither heart nor head. If by Hercules, he has sought help from Saturn, whose month he celebrated all year as Saturnalian king, he would not have brought it. Is he to be led a god by Jupiter, whom, however much there was certainly in him, he condemned of incest! For he killed his son-in-law Silanus. "I ask, why?" Because he desired to call his sister, the most celebrated of all girls, whom everyone else called Venus, Juno. "For why, I ask," he said, "his own sister?" Study, stupid: it is allowed half-way at Athens and all the way at Alexandria. Because you say, "At Rome mice lick the millstones". Will he correct the crooked for us? What he did in his bedroom I do not know and: now "he scrutinizes the zones of the sky". He wants to become a god? Is it not enough that he has a temple in Britain, where now barbarians care for him and as he were a god they say to happen upon a merciful fool?"