Book v.] ARNOBIUS ADVERSUS GEN TES. 263


Eleusinian mysteries and secret rites contain a narrative ?
Is it not of that wandering in which Ceres, worn out in
seeking for her daughter, when she came to the confines of
Attica, brought wheat [with her], graced with a hind's skin
the family of the Nebridz,! and laughed at that most won-
derful sight in Baubo's groins? Or if there is another cause,
that is nothing to us, so long as they are all produced
by [some] cause. For it is not credible that these things
were set on foot without being preceded by any causes, or
the inhabitants of Attica must be considered mad to have
received? a religious ceremony got up without any reason.
