The religious initiation of Roman youths was the occasion of their solemn consecration to the service of the state. Oaths and admissions to citizenship were in reality religious ceremonies. The Latin peoples maintained temples, altars, and shrines and, in a crisis, would consult the oracles. They preserved the bones of heroes and later on those of the Christian saints.
Close in meaning, found by a language model. A match does not mean the teachings are the same.
For holy children of good men offered sacrifice in secret, and with one consent they agreed to the covenant of the divine law, that they would partake alike in the same good things and the same perils, the fathers already leading the sacred songs of praise.
For either slaughtering children in solemn rites, or celebrating secret mysteries, or holding frenzied revels of strange customs,
because these first welcomed with feastings, and then afflicted with dreadful toils, those who had already shared with them in the same rights.