Commodian, Instructions 11

You call Apollo a cithara player and divine. He was first born from Maia on the island of Delos; afterward, hired for a wage, he served King Laomedon of the Trojans as a builder and raised the walls. And he hired himself out, the very one you think is a god seduced: his bones burned with love for Cassandra; the virgin played him cunningly, and the divine one was deceived. By the work of a shepherd he came to know the two-hearted one. For the divine one was rejected and departed from there. The virgin terrified him with the very appearance he should have commanded. She who ought to have loved the god first, he who began to love Daphne in lust: and yet he pursues her, while he wants to violate the girl; the fool loves for nothing and could not overtake her by running. Or, if he was a god, he would have met her through the air. The girl reached shelter first, and the divine one remained behind. The human race deceives you, for they lived on wretched fare. It is also reported that he pastured the flocks of Admetus. During imposed games, while he hurled the discus into the air, he could not hold onto the one who slipped; he struck his friend down: that was the last day of his companion Hyacinthus. If he was divine, he would have foreknown his friend's death.