Saturn was a man (1)

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Tertullian, Apologeticum 10:
With regard to Saturn therefore, if we make appeal to what we can learn from literature, neither the Greek Diodorus Siculus nor Thallus nor Cassius Severus nor Cornelius Nepos, nor any other recorded of such ancient beliefs, has proclaimed him anything but a man; if to proof from facts, I find nowhere more reliable proofs than in Italy itself, in which Saturn after many expeditions and after a residence in Attica took up his abode, having been welcomed by Janus, or Janes, as the Salii prefer to call him.

Minucius Felix, Octavius 21.4:
Saturn, the fountainhead of this family and clan, all antiquarians, Greek and Roman, treat as a man. So Nepos, and Cassius in his history, and Thallus and Diodorus Siculus say the same.

Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones 1.13:
Not only therefore all the poets, but the writers also of ancient histories and events, agree that he (= Saturn) was a man, inasmuch as they handed down to memory his actions in Italy: or Greek writers, Diodorus Siculus and Thallus; of Latin writers, Nepos, Cassius, and Varro.

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Lactantius, Divinae Institutiones 1.13
Minucius Felix, Octavius 21.4
Tertullian, Apologeticum 10

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