The Greek Beranger, Anacreon, devoted an ode to her, in which his praise of her is singularly exaggerated.

"Thou art almost like unto the Gods," he says.

The reasons which he has given for this apotheosis are none of the best.

They consist in these three privileges: [Greek: gegenes, apathes, hanaimosarke]; born of the earth, insensible to pain, bloodless.

We will not reproach the poet for these mistakes; they were then generally believed, and were perpetuated long afterwards, until the exploring eye of scientific observation was directed upon them.