But did not the gods forewarn us, did they not admonish us, to be on our guard, all but speaking with human voice? No city have I ever seen offered more constant protection by the gods, but more inevitably ruined by certain of its politicians. Was not that portent sufficient which appeared at the Mysteries—the death of the celebrants?The Scholiast explains that certain celebrants were seized by a shark as they were taking the sacred bath in the sea at Eleusis. In view of this did not Ameiniades warn you to be on your guard, and to send messengers to Delphi to inquire of the god what was to he done? And did not Demosthenes oppose, and say that the Pythia had gone over to Philip? Boor that he was, gorged with his feast of indulgence from yo
By this decree you reinstated those who had lost their rights; but neither the proposal of Patrocleides nor your own enactment contained any reference to a restoration of exiles. However, after you had come to terms with Sparta and demolished your walls, you allowed your exiles to return too.In April, 404. The Thirty were installed by the following summer on the motion of Dracontides, which the presence of the Spartan garrison made it difficult to reject. In the winter of 404 a number of the exiled democrats under Thrasybulus seized Phyle on the northern frontier of Attica; then they moved on Peiraeus and fortified Munychia. By February 403 they were strong enough to crush the Thirty, the remnants of whom fled to Eleusis, whence they were finally extirpated in 401. Then the Thirty came into power, and there followed the occupation of Phyle and Munychia, and those terrible struggles which I am loath to recall either to myself or to you.
“. . . and I will allow no information or arrest arising out of past events, save only in the case of those who fled from Athens.”i.e. to Eleusis, with the surviving members of the Thirty, after their downfall in February 403. And what is your own oath as jurors, gentlemen?“. . . and I will harbour no grievance and submit to no influence, but will give my verdict in accordance with the laws in force at the present time.” Let those oaths help you to decide whether I am right when I say that I am championing yourselves and th
The prosecution have also accused me in connexion with the suppliant's bough. They allege that it was I who placed it in the Eleusinium,This stood near the Acropolis and was probably the starting-point for the procession along the Sacred Way to Eleusis during the Eleusinia. and that under ancient law the penalty for doing such a thing during the Mysteries is death. The impudence of it! They resort to a ruse for my undoing, but will not leave well alone when their plot proves a failure. They proceed to bring a formal accusation against me in spite of it.
It was on our return from Eleusis, after the information had already been lodged against me.i.e. after Cephisius had lodged his e)/ndeicis a)sebei/as with the Basileus. The Basileus would report this to the boulh/ when it met in the Eleusinium, and both Cephisius and Andocides would have to attend. The Basileus appeared before the Prytanes to give the usual report on all that had occurred during the performance of the ceremonies there. The Prytanes said that they would bring him before the Council, and told him to give Cephisius and myself notice to attend at the Eleusinium, as it was there that the Council was to sit in conformity with a law of Solon's, which lays down that a sitting shall be held in the Eleusinium on the day after the Mysteries. We duly attended;
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n Ovid's
version of the visit of Demeter to Eleusis
（Ovid, Fasti iv.507ff.）, Celeus is not the tted heaven, and came in the likeness of a woman to Eleusis. And first she sat down on the rock which has been . Dem. 270ff. Demeter directs the people of
Eleusis to build her a temple and altar
“above Call
Well, as Pausanias calls it, being outside Eleusis, on the road to Megara.
In the course of the modern excavation of the sanctuary at Eleusis, the Well of the Fair Dances was discovered
just outsidoncentric circles, round which the women of
Eleusis probably tripped in the dance.
See *praktik Panyasis affirms that Triptolemus was a son of Eleusis, for he says that Demeter came to him. Pherecydes, probably a purely mythical personage. As to Eleusis, the equally mythical hero who is said to have given his name to
Eleusis, see Paus.
8.38.7. He is called Eleusinus by Hyginus, Fab. 147 and Serv.<
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urytion to Pholoe, and
Nessus to the river Evenus. The rest of them Poseidon received at Eleusis and hid them in a mountain. But
Pholus, drawing the arrow from a corpse, wondered that sloughman's
labours. This is confirmed by the ritual of the sacred ploughing observed at Eleusis, where members of the old priestly family of
the Bouzygai or Ox-yokers uttered many cur sorts of snakes. When
Hercules was about to depart to fetch him, he went to Eumolpus at Eleusis, wishing to be initiated. However it was not
then lawful for foreigners to be initiated:aurs, he was cleansed by Eumolpus and then
initiated.As to the initiation of Herakles at Eleusis, compare Diod. 4.25.1;
Tzetzes, Chiliades ii.394. According to Diodorus, the rites were Aphidnus. Herodotus says （Hdt. 8.65） that
any Greek who pleased might be initiated at Eleusis. The initiation of Herakles is represented in ancient reliefs. See
A. B. Cook, Zeus, i.
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ys the scene of the
supplication at the altar of Mercy in Athens, Euripides lays it at the altar of Demeter in Eleusis （Eur. Supp.
1ff.）. In favour of the latter version it may be said that the graves
of the fallen leaders were shown at Eleusis, near the Flowery Well （Paus.
1.39.1ff.; Plut. Thes. 29）; while the
graves of the common soldiers were at Eleutherae, which is on the borders of Attica and Boeotia, on the direct road from Eleusis to TEleusis to Thebes
（Eur. Supp. 756ff.; Plut. Thes. 29）. Tradition varied also on the question how the
Athenians obtained the permission of the Thebans to bury the Argive dead. Some said that Theseus led an army to
Thebes, defeated ted, they
marched against the Thebans, defeated them in battle, and carrying off the Argive dead buried them at Eleusis. See Lys.
2.7-10. and took refuge at the altar of Mercy,As to the altar of Mercy at Athens see above Ap
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nt version of the legend was told by Hesiod.
According to him the snake was reared by Cychreus, but expelled from Salamis by Eurylochus because of the ravages it
committed in the island; and after its expulsion it was received at Eleusis by Demeter, who made it one of her
attendants. See Strab. 9.1.9. Others said that the snake
was not a real snake, but a bad man nicknamed Snake on account of his cruelty, who was
banished by Eurylochus and took refuge at Eleusis, where he was appointed to a minor office in the sanctuary of
Demeter. See Stephanus Byzantius, s.v. *kuxrei=os
pa/gos; Eustathius, Commentary on Dionysius Perieg. 507
（Geographi Graeci Minores, ed. C. Müller, vol. ii. p.
314）. Cychreus was regarded as one of the guardian heroes of Salamis, where he was buried with his face to the west.
Sacrifices were regularly offered at his grave, and when Solon desired to establish the
claim of At
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rro, in
Augustine, De civitate Dei xviii.9; Hyginus, Fab. 164. The
Thriasian plain is the plain in which Eleusis
stands. See Strab. 9.1.6
Strab. 9.1.13.
Cecrops married Agraulus, daughter of Actaeus, andn of Erechtheus the Parian Chronicle also refers the first
sowing of corn by Triptolemus in the Rharian plain at Eleusis, and the first celebration of the mysteries by Eumolpus at
Eleusis （Marmor Parium
23-29）. Herein the PaEleusis （Marmor Parium
23-29）. Herein the Parian Chronicle seems to be in
accord with the received Athenian tradition which dated the advent of Demeter, the
beginning of agriculture, and the institution of the Eleusinian mysteries in the reign
of Erechtheus. See Diod. ferred to the reigns either of Pandion the First or of his son
Erechtheus. But Demeter was welcomed by Celeus at Eleusis,See above, Apollod. 1.5.1. and Dionysus by Icarius, who received from
him a branch of a vine and learned the pr
