A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries

...institution, of which the following observations are designed as a comprehensive view.

In the first place, I shall present the reader with two remarkable authorities—these perfectly demonstrative—in support of the assertion that a part of the spectacles consisted in a representation of the infernal regions; authorities which, though of the highest consequence, were unknown to Dr. Warburton himself. The first of these is from no less a person than the immortal Pindar, in a fragment preserved by Clement of Alexandria in Stromata, book 3: "But Pindar, speaking of the Eleusinian Mysteries, says: 'Blessed is he who, on seeing those common concerns under the earth, knows both the end of life and the given empire of Jupiter.'"