The Roman Empire and the Pax De Orum

The Romans were always as they encountered other peoples starting with the Greeks and the Etruscans. Their attitude was, let's get their gods on our side. And it kind of seemingly worked for them for many hundreds of years. So that's why you have emperors like DC, a symbolarian and dietclation, running persecutions. They believe that all of the problems of the third century crisis were caused by Rome and the Romans losing touch with the gods.