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symptoms, but should provoke the gods if they
refuse, till at length they give what is wanted."
Maximus having, at length, obtained what he con-
sidered an auspicious omen, Avent to Constantinople,
his route thither being a continual triumph. Julian
received him with the highest honours, and allowed
him to govern both himself and his empire. On the
death of Julian, Maximus was thrown into prison,
being incapable of paying sums which he was said
to have robbed. On his liberation, he was afterwards
accused of predicting who was to be the successor
to the empire, and beheaded.

Now we are expressly told that the first of these
transactions took place in the Temple of Hecate,
and there is very little doubt that the other did so
likewise ; and this supposition is confirmed by the
connection which was supposed to exist between
Diana, or the goddess of nature, and Hecate,1 Ceres,
and Proserpine; and therefore the appropriateness
of celebrating Eleusinian mysteries in the Temple of
Hecate, standing as it did within the precincts of the
Temple of Diana, appears evident.

The subterranean grotto here mentioned corre-
sponds with the cave of the Syrinx; and this and
the Temple of Hecate are both described as being
behind the Temple, so that there is little doubt but
that they are all connected with the same locality.3

1 Cnpems, Man. Ant. p. 197.

- Though we cannot suppose that the grotto of Pan, or the
Syrinx, and that of Hecate, were identical, yet it is extremely