...know will excite your laughter, although on account of the exposure by no means inclined to laugh. I have eaten out of the drum, I have drunk out of the cymbal, I have carried the Cernos,1 I have slipped into the bedroom. Are not these signs a disgrace ? Are not the mysteries absurdity...

...initiation, but which is conceived in much more enigmatic terms : " I have eaten out of the tympanon, I have drunk out of the cymbal, I have carried the kernos, I have insinuated myself under the pastos," IK TVfnravov ttyayov, fK /ct^ijSaAou tiriov, fKipvofyopriaa, VTTO...

...celebrated in a most lev.d manner. Again, dement of Alex., who \vns baptized, divulges as follows: "I hav« eaten out of the drum, I have drunk out of the cymbal, I have carried the ntpvoc ; I ha\e slipped into the bedroom," etc. I'rolrfpl., £. Alcibiadt., was also un initiate. si...

...to have been initiated in the mysteries, for, after telling a strange story about them, he says, " I have eaten out of the drum, I have drunk out of the cymbal, I have carried the kernos, I have slipped into the chamber." 2 Unhappily he has not told us the manner of his conversion, but in the...

...is one interpretation placed upon the second formula given by Clement and others as follows: "7 hare eaten out of the drum, I have drunk out of the cymbal, I have carried the kernos, I hcn<e insinuated myself under the pastas [or / have entered tlie bridal chamber]."1 Some authorities...

...celebrated in a most lewd manner. Again, Clement of Alex., who was baptized, divulges as follows: "I have eaten out of the drum, I have drunk out of the cymbal, I have carried the fipriHi I have slipped into the bedroom," etc. Protrtpt., 2. Alcr biades was also an initiate. ' Neander,...

...(Clemens, as cited, p. 32). This testimony is confused by the different version in the same author: — "I have eaten out of the drum, I have drunk out of the cymbal, I have carried the Cernos [said by the scholiasts to be a fan = liknon] , I have slipped into the bedroom." Cp. Firmicus,...

...Firmicus alludes to a stage in the initiation of the candidate and cites in Greek the famous words, "I have eaten out of the drum; I have drunk out of the cymbal; I have become a mystic of Attis . " He then opposes to the pagan sacrament the Christian Eucharist and declares...

...he had eaten of the fruits of Ceres and he replied, "I have eaten out of the drum, I have drunk cut of the cymbal, I have carried the Kernos, I have been covered in the bed." The cymbal is a large cup from which they drank a liquor composed of wine, water, honey and mead. The...

...very suspicious to me, but let us pass on. In the worship of Cybele and of Attis, the elect said : " I have eaten out of the drum, I have drunk out of the cymbal. " This food and this drink are said to resemble the Eucharist. Yes, because you look upon these aliments...