[344] Arch. Soc. Ant. Lond. vol. ii. p. 83.
[345] Asiatic Researches.
[346] “He has a separate apartment, shrouded from vulgar eyes by a black velvet curtain, richly embossed with gold, in a splendid palace at Ummerapoor: and his whole residence is as dazzling and sumptuous as gold and silver can make it. He is furnished with a silk bed, adorned with gold tapestry, hangings, and jewellery, and has his gold appurtenances. Foreign ministers are introduced to his sacred person, and he ranks before every member of the royal court except the king” (Symes).
[347] It was only as an epithet that the title sacred could apply to Samothrace: and as such, every other locality, wherein those mysteries were commemorated, shared it in common. But in this our island, to which Artemidorus above alludes, and where superior solemnity attended the celebration, the name of sacred was no adventitious clause, but, par excellence, the constituent essence of its proper appellation (see pp. 128, 129).
[348] Μυστηρια δε δυο τελειται του ενιαυτου; Δημητοι Κορη; τα μικρα και τα μεγαλα· και εστι τα μικρα ωσπερ προκαθαρσις και πραγνέυσις των μεγαλων.
[349] Lib. x. p. 474.
[350] εις την Πολιτ. Πλατ. p. 380.
[351] See the article under her name in the Classical Dictionary, with all the authorities there adduced.
[352] Clem. Alex. Strom. ii.
[353] Mihi cum multa eximia divinaque videntur Athenæ tuæ peperisse—tum nihil melius illis mysteriis quibus agresti immanique vitâ exculti ad humanitatem mitigati sumus: initiaque, ut appellantur, ita revera principia vitæ cognovimus: neque solum cum lætitiâ vivendi rationem accepimus, sed etiam cum spe meliori moriendi (De Legibus, 1. i. c. 24).