Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Commodianus/The Instructions of Commodianus/Chapter 11

X.&#8212;Neptune.

Ye make Neptune a god descended from Saturn; and he wields a trident that he may spear the fishes.&#160; It is plain by his being thus provided that he is a sea-god.&#160; Did not he himself with Apollo raise up walls for the Trojans?&#160; How did that poor stone-mason become a god?&#160; Did not he beget the cyclops-monster?&#160; And was he himself when dead unable to live again, though his structure admitted of this? &#160; Thus begotten, he begot who was already once dead.