Profanation of the Mysteries and mutilation of the Hermae
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the affair of the mysteries · mutilated the Hermae · performed Mysteries · the affair of the Mercuries · the mutilation of the Hermae · the mutilation of the Mercuries
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1 expressionMutilation of the Hermae and profanation of the mysteries1 mention
History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)
Thinking therefore, that if they expelled him, they would have the first place, they magnified the business, and raised an out cry, to the effect that both the affair of the mysteries and the mutilation of the Mercuries had been done for the abolition of democracy;
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History of the Peloponnesian War
The mutilation of statues of Hermes and the alleged profanation of the Eleusinian Mysteries at Athens, which triggered mass arrests, an informer's confession, and executions.
And when they fancied they were in possession of the truth respecting the Mercuries, they thought much more than ever that the affair of the mysteries also, in which he was implicated, had been done by him with the same design, and in connexion with the plot against the democracy.
Reflecting, then, on these things, and recalling to mind all that they knew by report concerning them, the Athenian people was wrathful at that time, and suspicious of those who had incurred accusation on the subject of the mysteries, and thought that every thing had been done on the strength of a conspiracy for establishing an oligarchy, or a tyranny.
The friends, too, of Alcibiades at Argos were at the same time suspected of a design to attack the popular government;
Against Alcibiades 1
Notorious acts of religious sacrilege (profaning the Eleusinian Mysteries and mutilating statues of Hermes) attributed to the defendant's circle.
others, again, have performed Mysteries, mutilated the Hermae, and committed profanity against all the gods and offences against the whole city, showing injustice and illegality alike in their public treatment of their fellow-men and in their behavior to each other, refraining from no audacity, and unversed in no outrageous practice?