Divus Augustus
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With regard to the religious ceremonies of foreign nations, he was a strict observer of those which had been established by ancient custom; but others he held in no esteem. For, having been initiated at
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Athens
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, and coming afterwards to hear a cause at
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Rome
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, relative to the privileges of the priests of the Attic Ceres, when some of the mysteries of the sacred rites were to be introduced in the pleadings, he dismissed those who sat upon the bench as judges with him, as well as the by-standers, and heard the argument upon those points himself. But, on the other hand, he not only declined, in his progress through
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Egypt
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, to go out of his way to pay a visit to Apis, but he likewise commended his grandson Caius for not paying his devotions at
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Jerusalem
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in his passage through
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Judea
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