Ipsum adhuc quod videmini fidelissime tueria patribus traditum, in quo principaliter reos transgressionis Christianos destinastis, studium dico deorum colendorum, de quo maxime erravit antiquitas, licet Serapidi iam Romano aras restruxeritis, licet Baccho iam Italico furias vestras immoletis, suo loco ostendam proinde despici et neglegi et destrui a vobis adversus maiorum auctoritatem.
In fact, as to that very point of ancestral tradition, which you think you most faithfully guard, which above all else you have used to mark down the Christians as law-breakers,'I mean the passion for worshipping the gods, (and that is where antiquity made its worst mistakea)'though you may have rebuilt his altars for Serapis Romanized, though you may make an offering of your frenzy to Bacchus Italianate'I will show in its proper place that you despise, neglect and destroy that tradition, clean against the authority of your ancestors.
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