“No
one of your gods is earlier than Saturn: from him you trace all your
deities, even those of higher rank and better-known. What, then, can
be proved of the first, will apply to those that follow. So far,
then, as books give us information, neither the Greek Diodorus or
Thallus, neither Cassius Severus or Cornelius Nepos, nor any writer
upon sacred antiquities, have ventured to say that Saturn was any but
a man: ….” Tertullian, Apology, 10, ANF 3:26
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