Liber de Caesaribus
Sex. Aurelius Victor
Ibi Graecorum more seu Pompilii Numae caerimonias leges gymnasia doctoresque curare occepit, adeo quidem, ut etiam ludum ingenuarum artium, quod Athenaeum vocant, constitueret atque initia Cereris Liberaeque, quae Eleusina dicitur, Atheniensium modo Roma percoleret.
There in the custom of the Greeks or of Numa Pompilius he began to attend to ceremonies laws, gymnasia and instructors, so that he even established a school of indigenous arts which they call the Atheneum and Rome also cultivated the beginnings of Ceres and Libera, which is called Eleusina, in the fashion of the Athenians.
Translation by Jane W. Crawford, © 2001.
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