3. But He did not permit men
to make supplication to the lesser gods. Do you, then, know who
are, or where are the lesser gods? Has mistrust of them, or the
way in which they were mentioned, ever touched you, so that you are
justly indignant that their worship has been done away with and
deprived of all honour?34103410 But if haughtiness of mind and
arrogance,34113411 as it is called
by the Greeks, did not stand in your way and hinder you, you might long
ago have been able to understand what He forbade to be done, or
wherefore; within what limits He would have true religion lie;34123412 what danger
arose to you from that which you thought obedience? or from what evils
you would escape if you broke away from your dangerous
delusion.