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On the Theophania
Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Lee, 1843
Nor was it this only, but also, the very men who rejected the gods mentioned (above), …
Nor was it this only, but also, the very men who rejected the gods mentioned (above), preached up, by means of hymns, elegies, sacrifices, mysteries, books, and votive offerings to Idols, that Father and Leader of all the Gods, who was overcome by bodily lust, and fell in love with Ganymede: and, as it were in emulation of their Gods, they transgressed the bounds of nature, and remained in this excess, at a distance not to be described, or (received) as real into the hearing. They fearlessly abused each other, as the Divine declarations affirm: “Man with man working that which was shameful, and receiving in themselves the return of reward, which was due to their error.”