Such is our society, which ridicules the gods.

They, too, will believe, and they will not look for her.

Meanwhile we shall put her away somewhere far off from the city, in some villa of mine or thine." "But who could help her ?" "Her co-religionists," answered Petronius.
"Who are they?
What deity does she worship?
I ought to know that better than thou." "Nearly every woman in Rome honors a different one.

It is almost beyond doubt that Pomponia reared her in the religion of that deity which she herself worships; what one she worships I know not.

One thing is certain, that no person has seen her make an offering to our gods in any temple.