And here let me observe, lest I
forget it, to say, that _Augustus_ lived three years in this city.
[B] _Lucius AEmilius Carpus_ was a Priest, and a man of great
riches: he was of the quality of _Sacrovir_, and probably one of
the six Priests of the temple of Angustus.--_Sextumvir Augustalii_.
[C] Several inscriptions of this kind have been found both in Italy
and Spain, but by far the greater number among the Gauls; and as
the sacrifices to the Goddess Cybele were some of the least ancient
of the Pagan rites, so they were the last which were suppressed on
the establishment of Christianity. Since we find one of the
Taurobolian inscriptions, with so recent a date as the time of the
Emperor Valentinian the third. The silence of the Heathen writers
on this head is very wonderful; for the only one who makes any
mention of them is Julius Firmicus Maternus, in his dissertation on
the errors of the Pagan religion; as Dalenius, in his elaborate
account of the Taurobolium, has remarked.
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