the
streets
and
squares of
Carthage
with
whitened
faces,
scented
hair, and
mincing
gait,
while,
like the
mendicant
friars of
the Middle
Ages, they
begged
alms from
the
passers-by.
In Greece,
on the
other
hand, the
bloody
orgies of
the
Asiatic
goddess
and her
consort
appear to
have found
little
favour.
The
barbarous
and cruel
character
of the
worship,
with its
frantic
excesses,
was
doubtless
repugnant
to the
