Note 2 — BOOK VIII.
Rowland Smith translation
ἐv τοῖς τῆς αὐλαίας χωρίοις. In temples, curtains served more especially to veil the statue of the divinity:—"Dum velis candentibua reductis in diversum, Deæ venerabilem conspectum apprecamur."—Apul. Met. xi.