Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

On this lake they enact by night the story of the god's sufferings, a rite which the Egyptians call the Mysteries. I could say more about this, for I know the truth, but let me preserve a discreet silence.

Let me preserve a discreet silence, too, concerning that rite of Demeter which the Greeks call Thesmophoria [*](A festival celebrated by Athenian women in autumn.) , except as much of it as I am not forbidden to mention.