Ceryces
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in the texts
On the Mysteries
Religious clan or group connected with the Eleusinian rites and admission of sons.
Callias, you impious scoundrel, first you are giving interpretations, when you have no right to do such a thing as a member of the Ceryces.
Now some time afterwards, gentlemen, he fell in love with the abandoned old hag once more and welcomed her back into his house, while he presented the boy, a grown lad by this time, to the Ceryces, asserting that he was his own son.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Athenian priestly clan associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries, opposed to Alcibiades's recall.
and the Eumolpidae and Ceryces adjured them with regard to the mysteries, for which he had been banished, and appealed to the gods against their restoring him;