The persons engaged spent the night together in music and dancing and various secret ceremonies, half pleasure, half worship, according to the ideas and customs of the time.
[Sidenote: Clodius.] [Sidenote: Caesar divorces his wife.] The mysteries of the Good Goddess were to be celebrated one night at Caesar's house, he himself having, of course, withdrawn.

In the middle of the night, the whole company in one of the apartments were thrown into consternation at finding that one of their number was a man.
He had a smooth and youthful-looking face, and was very perfectly disguised in the dress of a female.

He proved to be a certain Clodius, a very base and dissolute young man, though of great wealth and high connections.

He had been admitted by a female slave of Pompeia's, whom he had succeeded in bribing.

It was suspected that it was with Pompeia's concurrence.