§. 2. Caius profane.
The blasphemous Atheist continued still in his detestable Deity, being what God he would when he would, and changing his Godship with the change of his cloths: some∣times a male Deity, sometime a female, sometime a God of one fashion, sometime of another. Sometime he was Jupiter, sometime Juno, sometimes Mars, sometimes Venus, sometime Neptune, or Appollo, or Hercules, and sometimes Diana: and thus whilst he would be any thing, he was nothing, and under the garb of so many gods he was in∣deed nothing but Devil: He built a Temple for himself in Rome, and made himself a room in the Capitol, that he might (as he said) converse with Jupiter. But it seems Jupiter and he fell out, for he removed his own mansion, and built himself a Temple in the Palace, because he thought that if Jupiter and he shared in the same Temple, Jupiter would have the upper hand, and the more repute.
Therefore that his own Deity might have room enough, he built this new Temple; and that he might be sure to get equal worship with Jupiter, he intended to set up the statue of Jupiter Olympius there, but pictured directly after his own Image; so that it must have been Jupiters statue, but Caius his picture; Jupiturs trunk, but Caius