A discourse concerning liturgies

And if they would venture to be present, it was at their peril^u. As Pentheus in Pausanias^w; and those of Acarnania in Livy found it. Nero durst not venture, eleusiniis sacris, quorum initiation impii & scelerati voce praeconis submoverentur, interesse non ausus est. Sueton. ner. c. 34.

And if they would venture to be present, it was at their peril^u. As Pentheus in Pausanias^w; and those of Acarnania in Livy found it. Nero durst not venture, eleusiniis sacris, quorum initiatione impii & scelerati voce praeconis submoverentur, interesse non ausus est. Sueton. ner. c. 34.

1. uTempore initiorum duo Juvenes Acarnanes, qui non initiati erant, Athenas venerant, & in Sacrarium Cereris, cum aliis popularibus suis intraverunt, ob hoc tanquam nefas summum—caesi sunt, flor. epit.
2. wPentheam aiunt; ut foeminarum operta sacra specularetur, in arborem ascendisse, atque inde omnia conspicatum, quod cum Bacchae animadvertissent, impetu facto viventem eum lacerasse, ac membratim discerpsisse, Pausan. l. 2. Livy dec. 4. l. 1. p. 7. vid. sig. infra.

They would not speak of them in the hearing of others, [Greek or Hebrew]; He is ⟨p. 32⟩impious that speaks of the mysteries to those that are not initiated, says Chrysippus in Laertius. This was part of Alcibiades crime, mysteria Cereris enuntiavisse^x