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Note 89 — ON ABSTINENCE FROM ANIMAL FOOD. BOOK THE FOURTH.

Thomas Taylor translation

Those who, in being initiated, closed the eyes, which muesis signifies, no longer (says Hermias in Phædrum) received by sense those divine mysteries, but with the pure soul itself. See my Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries.

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