Bovem colis, ego Deis macto Bovem;
Tu maximum anguillam, Deum putas: ego,
Obsoniorum credidi, suavissimum,
Carnes suillas, tu caves, at gaudeo
His maximè. Canem colis, quem verbero.
Edentem, ubi deprehendo, forte obsonium.
Thus Juvenal, another Heathen Poet, ridicules their religious Fooleries:
Oh happy Nations! which, of their own sowing,
Have store of Gods, in ev’ry Garden growing.[[434]]