Arnobius — Against the Nations 2.68
68.1. On the Alban mount of old it was allowed to sacrifice no bulls but of snowy whiteness: did you not change that custom and religion and, that reddish ones might be given, settle it by senate decree? When Romulus and Pompilius reigned, entrails were burned for the gods thoroughly cooked and moist: under king Tullus did you not begin, despising the ancient observance, to offer them half-raw and lightly inspired?
2. Before Hercules' coming into Italy, when by Apollo's warning human heads were sacrificed to father Dis and Saturn, did you not likewise change this custom also by shrewd deceit and ambiguity of names?
3. Since therefore you yourselves have followed now those customs, now other laws, and many things have been repudiated and despised by you either when errors were recognized or by attention to better things, what have we done against common sense and judgment if we have chosen greater and more certain things and have not suffered ourselves to be held by the religions of false things?
Latin
68.1. In Albano antiquitus monte nullos alios licebat quam nivei tauros immolare candoris: nonne istum morem religionemque mutastis atque, ut rufulos liceret dari, senatus constitutum sanctione? Cum Romulo Pompilioque regnantibus percocta plane ac madida concremarentur diis exta, nonne rege sub Tullo semicruda coepistis et leviter animata porrigere prisca observatione contempta?
2. Ante adventum in Italiam Herculis cum ex Apollinis monitu patri Diti ac Saturno humanis capitibus supplicaretur, et hunc similiter morem non fraude callidula et nominum ambiguitate mutastis?
3. Cum igitur et vos ipsi modo illos mores modo alias leges fueritis secuti, multaque vel erroribus cognitis vel animadversione meliorum sint a vobis repudiata, contempta, quid est a nobis factum contra sensum iudiciumque commune, si maiora et certiora delegimus nec sumus nos passi falsorum religionibus attineri?