The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned, of Athenæus - Literally Translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A.; With an Appendix of Poetical Fragments, Rendered Into English Verse by Various Authors, and a General Index #233553

And it would be better for me also to hold my tongue, and not to add anything more to all that has been said already; but since you ask me very earnestly for a discussion on those men who have been notorious for luxury, and on their efl'emi nate practices, you must be gratified. 2. For enjoyment is connected, in the first instance, with appetite; and in the second place, with pleasure. And Sophm cles the poet, being a man fond of enjoyment, in order to avoid accusing old age, attributed his impotence pleasures to his temperance, 'u that 11e glad to be re leased from them as from some har master. But I the Judgment of Paris is a. Tale'briginally invented by the ancients, as a. Comparison between pleasure and virtue. Ao cordi ugly, when Venus, that is to say pleasure, was preferred, everything was thrown into confusion. And that excellent writer Xenophon seems to me to have invented his fable about Hercules and Virtue on the same principle. For ac cording to Empedoclés; Mars was no god to them, nor gallant War, Nor Jupiter the king, nor Saturn old, Nor Neptune; Venus was their only queen. Her they propitiate' and duly worship J 1 With pious images, with beauteous figures Skilfully carved; with fragrant incenses, And holy ofl'erin of unmix'd myrrh.