One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Your Jupiter too, stolen in his infancy, was unworthy of both the home and the nutriment accorded to human beings; and, as he deserved for so bad a child, he had to live in Crete.
Comic poets deride the Phrygians for their cowardice; Sallust reproaches the Moors for their levity, and the Dalmatians for their cruelty; even the apostle brands the Cretans as "liars."
