[Redbook8:267-268][19910219:1155e]{Christians and Pagans [continued]}[19th February 1991]
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‘Compromise was impossible between the ever stricter Christian beliefs of the emperors and the ethos of the last pagans – “Not by one path alone can man attain so great a mystery” proclaimed the great Symmachus (AD382[CE]) in trying to persuade the Emperor Valentinian II to give the Altar of Victory back to the Senate.’
– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 2]: 210
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