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And what, think you, will be the feelings of the initiated who arrive for the rite, when they see who the king is, and remember all his impious acts; or what the thoughts of the other Greeks who come for this celebration, purposing either to sacrifice or to attend in state1 at that great assembly?
1 Religious envoys came either as spectators or to give notice of a festival about to he held elsewhere.
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