On Famous Women

...judging that when he saw her living in incest with others, he could not bear it with a calm mind; or perhaps, because his mother's debauchery brought shame upon him, and fearing the shameful allure of one who would be impiously born, he was thus driven to put her to death. This fragment likely refers to Ninyas, the son of Semiramis, who was said to have killed his mother to end her incestuous advances and protect his own reputation.

Concerning Ops, the wife of Saturn.

Ops—or Rhea, if we believe the ancients—shone with great renown amidst both prosperity and adversity. For she was the daughter of Uranus—a most powerful man among the still-primitive Greeks—and his wife Vesta. In classical mythology, Vesta is often identified here as Gaia or Mother Earth. As the sister and wife of King Saturn, she performed no other notable deed that has reached our knowledge, except that she distinguished herself through womanly cunning. She saved her sons—Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto—from death by negotiating a pact with Titan original: "Tutone," a variant of Titan, her husband’s brother.

Because of her reputation for justice, the ignorance of the people of that era allowed her to rise to the fame of a supreme deity. She did not only gain honor through her physical likeness; rather, through the great error of mortals, she was regarded as a distinguished goddess and the "Mother of the Gods." Temples, priests, and sacred rites were established for her by public decree. To such an extent did this enormous evil The author likely refers to the "evil" of pagan idolatry and the deification of mortals. grow strong...