 Augustine of Hippo in "The City of God" (II.7) cites Chaerea's speech from Act III, Scene 5, on the descent of Jupiter onto the lap of Danaë in the form of a golden shower as an authoritative precedent to justify his own licentious behaviour as likely to corrupt schoolboys.Dante alludes to Terence's "Thais" in Canto 18 of the "Inferno", where he encounters the flatterers, who are covered with human waste.Virgil points to one of the suffering souls