ELEUS1S. 
and, after butting with its horns for some time 
against the marble, ran off with considerable 
speed, bellowing, into the Plain of Eleusis. 
Instantly, a general murmur prevailed ; and 
several women joining in the clamour, it was 
with difficulty any proposal could be made. 
" They had been always" they said, "famous for 
their corn ; and the fertility of the land ivould cease 
when the Statue was removed." Such were exactly 
the words of Cicero with respect to the Sici- 
lians, when Verres removed the Statue of Ceres : 
" QUOD, CERERE VIOLATE, OMXES CULTUS 
FRUCTUSQUE CERERIS IN HIS LOCIS INTERIISSE 
ARBiTRANTUR 1 ." It was late at night before 
these scruples were removed. On the following 
morning, November the twenty-second, the boat 
arrived from Salamis, attended by four monks, 
who rendered us all the service in their power ; 
but they seemed perfectly panic-struck when 
we told them that it was our intention to send 
the Statue in their vessel to the Pirteeus; and 
betrayed the helplessness of infants when 
(1) Gcero in Perr. lib. iv. c. 51. The circumstances which attended 
the removal of the Statues of Certs and Triptoltmus from the Temple 
mt Enna, by ferret, were very similar to those which opposed them- 
selves to our undertaking. " His pulchritude pericvlo, amplitude safuli 
fwt,quod eorum demolitio, atque asportatio, prrdiffic&s videbatvr," Vid. 
lib. iv. c. 49. 
