[10] But the emperor yet spared the statues of the gods which were exposed to the public veneration: four hundred and twenty-four temples, or chapels, still remained to satisfy the devotion of the people; and in every quarter of Rome the delicacy of the Christians was offended by the fumes of idolatrous sacrifice.

[11] [Footnote 3: See the outlines of the Roman hierarchy in Cicero, (de Legibus, ii.

7, 8,) Livy, (i.

20,) Dionysius Halicarnassensis, (l.

ii.
p.