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Beck states that " Quite early in the century the religion was as good as dead throughout the empire.
Clauss states that inscriptions show Mithras as one of the cults listed on inscriptions by Roman senators who had not converted to Christianity, as part of the " pagan revival " among the elite.
Ulansey holds that " Mithraism declined with the rise to power of Christianity, until the beginning of the fifth century, when Christianity became strong enough to exterminate by force rival religions such as Mithraism.
" According to Speidel, Christians fought fiercely with this feared enemy and suppressed it during the 4th century.
According to Luther H. Martin, Roman Mithraism came to an end with the anti-pagan decrees of the Christian emperor Theodosius during the last decade of the 4th century.
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