Arnobius — Against the Nations 2.3
3.1. Unless perhaps you doubt whether that commander of whom we speak exists, and you rather believe Apollo is, Diana, Mercury, Mars. 2. Give a true judgment, and looking around at all these things we see, one will doubt more whether the other gods exist than hesitate about God, whom we all naturally know exists—whether when we cry “O God,” or when we set that God as witness of the wicked and, as if he sees us, lift our face to heaven.
3. “But he forbade humans to entreat the lesser gods.” - Do you even know who the lesser gods are or where they are? Has any suspicion or mention of them ever struck you, that you should deservedly take it ill that cults were taken from them and they were widowed of the bestowal of honor? 4. But if the swelling of mind and that typhus which is called so by the Greeks were not standing against you and blocking you, you could already have known what he forbade to be done and why, within what bounds he willed true religion to stand, how much danger would be born for you from thinking yourselves owed to that obedience, or from what evils you would emerge if you renounced treacherous error.
Latin
3.1. Nisi forte dubitatis, an sit iste de quo loquimur imperator, et magis esse Apollinem creditis, Dianam Mercurium Martem. 2. Da verum iudicium et haec omnia circumspiciens quae videmus magis an sint dii ceteri dubitabit quam in deo cunctabitur, quem esse omnes naturaliter scimus, sive cum exclamamus ''o deus'', sive cum illum testem deum constituimus improborum et quasi nos cernat faciem sublevamus ad caelum.
3. ''Sed minoribus supplicare diis homines vetuit''. - Dii enim minores qui sint aut ubi sint scitis? Perstrinxit vos aliquando suspicio illorum aut mentio, ut merito feratis indigne abrogatos his cultus et honoris inpertitione viduatos? 4. Quod si non mentis elatio et typhus qui appellatur a Graecis obstaret atque officeret vobis, iamdudum scire potuissetis, quid aut quare prohibuerit fieri, intra fines quos stare religionem voluerit veram, quantum vobis periculum nasceretur ex eo quod putaretis obsequio vel ex quibus malis emergeretis, si insidioso renuntiaretis errori.