“As for your Castors [pagan deities], whose worship you refuse to abandon, why did they not give you tranquil seas so that the ships might reach here with grain in winter and the city suffer less with want?”  Pope St. Gelasius (c.494), Tractate in Denunciation of the Lupercalia  (Cited in footnote on Gelasius in Liber Pontificalis as translated by Louise Ropes Loomis, Ph.D.)