Histories

Thus too he entered the temple of Hephaestus and jeered at the image there. This image of Hephaestus is most like the Phoenician Pataici,[*](the Phoenician *pata/ikos (as the Greeks called him) was the Ptah or Patah of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt whom the Greeks identified with Hephaestus; always in the form of a dwarf.) which the Phoenicians carry on the prows of their triremes. I will describe it for anyone who has not seen these figures: it is the likeness of a dwarf.

Also he entered the temple of the Cabeiri, into which no one may enter save the priest; the images here he even burnt, with bitter mockery. These also are like the images of Hephaestus, and are said to be his sons.