136. We might quote, among a great number of instances, the
mysterious worship of Mithras and the Taurobolia; the latter
of which became fashionable in the time of the Antonilles
(see a Dissertation of M. de Boze, in the Memoires de
l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom. ii p. 443). The romance of
Apuleius is as full of devotion as of satire.