Chapter

 1  5|      choice, they blast places sacred and profane; they smite
 2  6|     city with the religions of sacred rites, with chaste virgins,
 3  6|      that they acknowledge the sacred institutions of all nations,
 4  7|       or by the institution of sacred rites, or by the dedication
 5  8|      inhuman meats--not by any sacred rite, but by that which
 6  8|        the gods, they laugh at sacred things; wretched, they pity,
 7  9|       the intervention of that sacred name become incestuous:
 8  9|        to mutual silence. Such sacred rites as these are more
 9 12|        banquets, and abhor the sacred contests; the meats previously
10 20|   statues, those things became sacred which had been taken up
11 21|       about. Then consider the sacred rites themselves, and their
12 21|    mysteries. And what are the sacred rites of Jupiter? His nurse
13 21| certainly these things are not sacred rites, but tortures. What
14 22|      being human by those very sacred rites of his.~
15 24|        there are some that are sacred from women: it is a crime
16 24|       at some ceremonies. Some sacred places are crowned by a
17 28|   incests, of abominations, of sacred rites polluted, of infants
18 28|       you do not condemn their sacred rites instituted in honour
19 30|     Egyptian Busiris, it was a sacred rite to immolate their guests,
20 30|       and Bellona to steep her sacred rites with a draught of
21 37|       which in connection with sacred things we know, and condemn