[...]Who, brought out by the nymph, was surnamed Adonis. whom Venus loved, Mars, transformed into a boar, killed him. Many say that he was turned into a rose by the pity of Venus. There is also another order to this fable: from Egypt the brothers Epiuoasterius and Ion set out for the island of Cyprus and there they drew lots for wives. From their race Celes was born, who had a daughter, Erinome. Since she was of great chastity and was loved by Minerva and Diana, she began to be hated by Venus. When she plotted against the girl's chastity, she incited Jupiter to love her. After Juno noticed this trick, in order to overcome the deception with deception, she asked Venus to inflame Adonis with the girl's love. After she could not persuade him to love her by any trick, she led Adonis himself into the virgin's chamber, having thrown some mists at him. Thus the girl lost her chastity through force and deceit. But Diana, taking pity on her, changed her into a peacock near the river Cissus. But when Adonis learned that he had corrupted the beloved of Jupiter, he fled in fear into the woods of Mount Cassius and there, mingling with the wild people, he lived. When he was led to the mountain by the trick of Mercury, when the boar, whom the fables speak of as Mars, was vehemently urging him and was overcome by Adonis, Jupiter suddenly smote a thunderbolt and gave Adonis to death: but when Venus often complained that she had been deceived and that her beloved Adonis had died, Mercury, taking pity, caused the image of Adonis to be brought back to his people, so that it might be believed that he was alive; but Juno asked Jupiter that Adonis should spend his life in the light of his homeland. Then Diana restored the maiden Erinoma to her former form, who nevertheless begot a son, Thales, by Adonis and remained with her husband.
