Arnobius

“ If the magi, who are so much akin to [4] soothsayers, relate that, in their incantations, pretended gods [5] steal in frequently instead of those invoked; that some of these, moreover, are spirits of grosser substance, [6] who pretend that they are gods, and delude the ignorant by their lies and deceit,—why [7] should we not similarly believe that here, too, others substitute themselves for those who are not, that they may both strengthen your superstitious beliefs, and rejoice that victims are slain in sacrifice to them under names not their own? ”