Exhortation to the Greeks 4.61

… the licentiousness of Zeus. These are the models of your self-indulgence, these are the theologies of your outrage, these are the teachings of gods who join you in sexual immorality: “for what each wishes, that he also believes,” as the Athenian orator says. And what are your other images like: little Pans, naked girls, drunken satyrs, and erect members, laid bare in paintings and convicted by their own incontinence! Now you look openly, as a public spectacle, at the depicted postures of every licentiousness and are not ashamed; still more, you keep them set up, like the images of your gods, dedicating pillars of shamelessness at home, painting the postures of Philaenis just as you do the labors of Heracles. We proclaim that not only the use of these things, but the very sight and hearing of them, must be forgotten. Your ears have become harlots, your eyes have committed sexual immorality, and, strangest of all, your gaze has committed adultery before the embrace. You who have done violence to the human being and have shamefully broken off what is divine in God's handiwork, you disbelieve everything so that you may give yourselves up to passion: you believe the idols, emulating their incontinence, but you disbelieve God, because you cannot bear self-control. You have hated what is better and honored what is worse, becoming spectators of virtue but competitors in vice.