Ἀνεπόπτευτον
not-fully-initiated
Translated by David Whitehead5 Oct 2000Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
The [term that means] not being admitted to the grade of epoptes [in the Eleusinian Mysteries]; so Hyperides [sc. uses the word].1 What admission to the grade of epoptes means, Philochorus shows when he says: "he is wronging all the mystic things and all the epoptic things". And elsewhere: "so for Demetrius something special and unique happened: becoming a semi-initiate [mystes] at the same time as a full-initiate [epoptes] and side-stepping the traditional times of the rite".2