608 , ELEUSIS TO ATHENS, 
Eumolpus the Thracian, and Erectheus king of 
Athens, the former laid claim to Athens 1 itself, 
as part of his father's dominions. The capitals 
of these two princes were not more than fifteen 
miles distant from each other ; and there was 
as little difference in their manners as their 
situation. This appears by the issue of the 
war, which was so amicably concluded. The 
terms were, that, for the future, the inhabitants 
of both cities, Athens and Eleusis, should be 
considered as one people 8 ; that the religion 
of Eleusis, the mysteries so long known, and 
so much revered under that name, should be 
received at Athens; the descendants o^ Eumolpus 
being entitled to the PRIESTHOOD, and the 
family of Erectheus to the CROWN 3 . 
TU Rhcti. Two streams of salt water, called Rheti by 
Pausanias, are described by him as the limits 
between the Eleusinian and the Attic territories. 
(l) Hygin. c. 46. 
(2^ Pausan. lib. i. 'A*" <r<Z (i.e. EiI^aAirai;) Eu^oX^'Sa/ Kt\eZ\ra.t va.f' 
'Atw&ioit. Diog. Laert. in prooem. p. 4. Thucyd. p. 496. fletyeh. 
et Suiilas in v. Eu^aXsr/Sa*. These mysteries were supposed to come 
originally from ORPHEUS. T 'EXZU^/V/AIX rut n^raf '(>P<PETS, avitf 
'ofyvfftii, tit ri 'Affoetf ixafturtf. Theodoret. Therapeut. " Eleusiniorum 
sacra mystica ORPHEUS, nationc Thrax, in Athenas importavit." Sec 
also Pausanias. 
(3) Ibid. ClarJte's Connexion, &c. p- 66. 
