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Twelve Emperors by Suetonius

Augustus, Chapter 93: On religion.
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With regard to the religious ceremonies of foreign nations, he [Note 1] 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 Athens, and coming afterwards to hear a cause at Rome, 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 bystanders, and heard the argument upon these points himself. But on the other hand, he not only declined, in his progress through Egypt, to go out of his way to pay a visit to Apis, but he likewise commended his grandson Gaius for not paying his devotions at Jerusalem in his passage through Judea.

Note 1: he = Augustus