PLUTUS. 235

A priest now came, with the same complaint that
Hermes had made, — he was starving. No one
wanted anything ; therefore, no one offered sacrifices.
He was glad to take service with the new deity.

A procession was now organized to conduct Plutus
to his temple. The elderly lady who had come back
in very gay attire was induced to carry the pots of
boiled pulse,! on the promise that her suitor should
return to her, and the god of wealth was solemnly
enthroned as the one and only deity thenceforward
to be worshipped in Athens.

1 Commonly carried by young girls, who wore gay-coloured robes,
at the dedication of an altar or temple,