Exhortation to the Greeks 2.20

And what wonder is it if the barbarian Etruscans are initiated into such shameful sufferings, when among the Athenians and the rest of Greece (I am ashamed even to say it) the myth of Demeter is full of shame? Demeter, wandering around Eleusis (this place is in Attica) in search of her daughter Kore, grows weary and sits down by a well in her grief. This is forbidden to the initiates even now, so that those who have been initiated may not seem to imitate the mourning goddess. At that time the earthborn lived at Eleusis; their names were Baubo and Dysaules and Triptolemus, and also Eumolpus and Eubuleus. Triptolemus was a cowherd, Eumolpus a shepherd, and Eubuleus a swineherd; from them sprang the hierophantic clans of the Eumolpidae and the Ceryces at Athens. And (for I will not refrain from saying it) Baubo, having received Demeter as her guest, offers her a potion; when she refuses to take it and will not drink (for she was in mourning), Baubo, deeply hurt, as though she had been slighted, uncovers her private parts and shows them to the goddess; and Demeter is delighted at the sight and …