Ardua res hæc est, opibus non tradere mores,
Et cùm tot Crœsos viceris, esse Numam.
Martial, xi. vi.
[168] Matth. xix. 23.
[169] Ps. lxii. 10.
[170] Luke xvi. 9.
[171] 2 Cor. xiii. 14.
[172] 1 Thess. iv. 8.
[173] Acts xi. 16.
[174] Eph. i. 13.
[175] It was the easier to do this, as the Heathens had their Minerva and Diana, as well as grosser deities; and their vestal virgins too; though, I doubt, in less numbers than the shameless votaries of the Corinthian Venus. See Strabo, L. viii. p. 378. Par. 1620.