Note 25 — V.
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Les petits mystères ne consistoient qu'en cérémonies préparatoires.—Sainte Croix, i. 297.—As to the oath of secrecy, Bryant says, "The first thing at these awful meetings was to offer an oath of secrecy to all who were to be initiated, after which they proceeded to the ceremonies."—Anal. of Anc. Myth., vol. iii. p. 174.—The Orphic Argonautics allude to the oath: μετὰ δ' ὁρϗια Μύσῖαις, ϗ. τ. λ., "after the oath was administered to the mystes," &c.—Orph. Argon., v. 11.