The impressive, costly, and centralised rites to the deities of the Roman state were vastly outnumbered in everyday life by commonplace religious observances pertaining to an individual's domestic and personal deities, the patron divinities of Rome's various neighborhoods and communities, and the often idiosyncratic blends of official, unofficial, local and personal cults that characterised lawful Roman religion. In this spirit, a provincial Roman citizen who made the long journey from Bordeaux to Italy to consult the Sibyl at Tibur did not neglect his devotion to his own goddess from home: COUNT 5
QSN1 What type of religious practices outnumbered the state observances? ANS1 commonplace QSN2 To what did the mixture of official and individual religious practices  pertain?  ANS2 lawful Roman QSN3 What were the characteristics of state religious observances? ANS3 impressive, costly, and centralised QSN4 Who made the choices of personal religious practices in Rome?  ANS4 individual QSN5 What type of deities did Roman communities have? ANS5 patron