Mesorat%20hashas for Avodah Zarah 88:13

ואני אומר אינה גנובה התם לפי שעתא הוא רתח עלה והדר מפייס לה הכא כל שעתא ושעתא בזלזולה קיימא

But I maintain that [his answer] was not deceptive. There [in the mishnah just cited] the man may have been momentarily angry at the idol and subsequently made his peace with it; but here [in the case of the Aphrodite image] it is constantly treated in this contemptuous manner.

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