Octavius 6.1

"Since, then, either Fortune is blind or nature uncertain, how much more reverent and better it is to receive the teaching of our ancestors as the high priest of truth, to cultivate the religions handed down, to worship the gods whom you were trained by your parents to fear before you knew them more intimately, and not to pass judgment on the divine powers but to believe those before us, who in an age still rude, at the very birth of the world, were worthy to have gods either as kindly helpers or as kings? Hence, then, we see throughout all empires, provinces, and towns that each people has its own rites of worship and worships local gods: the Eleusinians Ceres, the Phrygians the Mother, the Epidaurians Aesculapius, the Chaldaeans Bel, the Syrians Astarte, the Taurians Diana, the Gauls Mercury, the Romans all the divinities.