tum, quis fas et honos adyti penetralia nosse, femineos prohibent gressus ac limine curant saetigeros arcere sues; nec discolor ulli ante aras cultus; velantur corpora lino, et Pelusiaco praefulget stamine vertex.
Further, those who are permitted and privileged to have access to the inner shrineb forbid the approach of women, and are careful to keep bristly swine away from the threshold. The dress worn before the altars is the same for all: linen covers their limbs, and their foreheads are adorned with a head-band of Pelusianc flax.
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