even in the temple of Olympian Zeus, by the side of his renowned statue, stood an image of the Emperor. In many ways, also, the ancient cults combined and blended with the new. In Gaul the Emperor-god was honored with rites which were borrowed from the worship of the ancient gods, and the Arvales, assiduously as in other respects they cared for what was old, did not oppose this innovation; they even assigned the divine Emperor a place among the ancient gods. In a certain sense it can be said that