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Lysias, the sophist,1 being the lover of
Metaneira, wished, in addition to the other expenditures which he lavished upon
her, also to initiate her; for he considered that everything else which he
expended upon her was being taken by the woman who owned her, but that from
whatever he might spend on her behalf for the festival and the initiation the
girl herself would profit and be grateful to him. So he asked Nicaretê
to come to the mysteries bringing with her Metaneira that she might be
initiated, and he promised that he would himself initiate her.
1 This was the well-known orator.
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