Quamquam non erat religio publica, tamen in imperio gentes variae haud paucos deos venerebantur. Deus commodus quem reges venerebantur erat Ahura Mazda, opinabile omnium auctor et consuasor regibus spectatus, cuius signum erat ignis.
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