It was as confidently affirmed, that this inhuman sacrifice was succeeded by a suitable entertainment, in which intemperance served as a provocative to brutal lust; till, at the appointed moment, the lights were suddenly extinguished, shame was banished, nature was forgotten; and, as accident might direct, the darkness of the night was polluted by the incestuous commerce of sisters and brothers, of sons and of mothers." [19] [Footnote 18: See Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History, vol.i.p.

101, and Spanheim, Remarques sur les Caesars de Julien, p.

468, &c.] [Footnote 19: See Justin Martyr, Apolog.i.35, ii.14.Athenagoras, in Legation, c.27.Tertullian, Apolog.c.7, 8, 9.

Minucius Felix, c.

9, 10, 80, 31.