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Aristonymus of Ephesus, the son of Demostratus, hated women and used to consort with an ass;
and in due time the ass gave birth to a very beautiful
maiden, Onoscelis1 by name. So Aristocles in the
second book of his Strange Events.
Fulvius Stellus hated women and used to consort
with a mare and in due time the mare gave birth to a
beautiful girl and they named her Epona. She is the
goddess that is concerned with the protection of
horses. So Agesilaüs in the third book of his Italian
History.
1 ‘The girl with ass's legs’: cf. the scholium on Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, 1048; Stobaeus, Florilegium, lxiv. 37 (iv. p. 473 Hense).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 4.
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