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The priests of Ceres, who were dressed in blue robes, had prudently stopped in the street of Satheb, and in low tones were chanting a thesmophorion in the Megarian dialect. From time to time files of men arrived, completely naked, their arms outstretched, and all holding one another by the shoulders.
At the corner of the street of Satheb he leaned his back against the wall beneath the pent-house of a shop, and advanced no further. The slaves of the Council struck him with their whips of hippopotamus leather, so furiously and long that the fringes of their tunics were drenched with sweat.
They were allowed to advance into the street of Satheb as far as the brass sheathed oaken gate; then the people with a single impulse had sprung upon them. Indeed, the soldiers remembered a great shout; Spendius, who was flying at the head of the columns, had not heard it. Then the corpses were placed in the arms of the Pataec gods that fringed the temple of Khamon.
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