Taurians, Gauls, and Romans: Lactantius on human sacrifice and other criminal rituals to false gods (early fourth century CE)

Ancient author: Lactantius, Divine Institutes 1.21 (link; link to Latin). Comments: In the process of rejecting the false gods of other peoples and of other contemporary Romans specifically, Lactantius (introduced at this link) provides a series of ethnographic examples as amunition. He begins with practices in honour of the gods which he characterizes as criminal, particularly [ ]