iamque domo egrediens, ut publica festa diesque et ludos stupuit celsa et Capitolia vidit laurigerosque deum templis adstare ministros ac Sacram resonare Viam mugitibus ante delubrum Romae (colitur nam sanguine et ipsa more deae, nomenque loci ceu numen habetur, atque urbis Venerisque pari se culmine tollunt templa, simul geminis adolentur tura deabus), vera ratus quaecumque fiant auctore senatu, contulit ad simulacra fidem dominosque putavit aetheris, horrifico qui stant ex ordine vultu.
And then when he went abroad, and lost in wonder viewed the public festivals on national holy days with their games, and saw the lofty Capitol, the laurelled priests standing at the temples of their gods, and the Sacred Way resounding with the lowing of cattle before the shrine of Rome (for she too is worshipped with blood after the fashion of a goddess, the name of the place is reckoned as a divinity, the temples of the City and Venus rise to the same high top and incense is burned to the pair of goddesses together,) he would think that what is done by the senates authority must be genuine, and so gave his faith to the images and believed that the figures standing in a row, which he shuddered to look at, were the lords of the heavens.
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