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The rapes committed on boys or girls, the long voyages, flights, banishments, and voluntary services of the Gods, which are sung by the poets, are passions fitting to be attributed not to Gods, but to Daemons, whose fortunes were recorded in memorial of their virtue and power. Neither is Aeschylus in the right, when he says, Divine Apollo banished from the sky;nor Admetus in Sophocles, saying of a God, My cock by crowing led him to the mill.