Circular blue library stamp at top right: "LIBRARY OF PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY", dated "JUN 12 1925".

THE

ELEUSINIAN

AND

BACCHIC MYSTERIES.

A DISSERTATION.

THOMAS TAYLOR,

EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, EMENDATIONS, AND GLOSSARY,

ALEXANDER WILDER, M. D.

"In the sacred initiations (Teletai), purifications, sprinkler-vessels, and acts of consecration come first. These are training exercises for the rites performed in secret and for the participation in the Divine."
PROCLUS: Manuscript Commentary upon Plato, I. Alcibiades.

WITH 85 ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. L. RAWSON.

FOURTH EDITION.

Small floral ornament featuring a central three-petaled fleur-de-lis motif.

NEW-YORK:

J. W. BOUTON, 8 WEST 28TH STREET.

1891.