There was no further passage; the priests alone could open it; for the temple was not a place of meeting for the multitude, but the private abode of a divinity.
"The enterprise is impossible," said Matho.

"You had not thought of this! Let us go back!" Spendius was examining the walls.
He wanted the veil, not because he had confidence in its virtue (Spendius believed only in the Oracle), but because he was persuaded that the Carthaginians would be greatly dismayed on seeing themselves deprived of it.

They walked all round behind in order to find some outlet.
Aedicules of different shapes were visible beneath clusters of turpentine trees.

Here and there rose a stone phallus, and large stags roamed peacefully about, spurning the fallen fir-cones with their cloven hoofs.
But they retraced their steps between two long galleries which ran parallel to each other.

There were small open cells along their sides, and tabourines and cymbals hung against their cedar columns from top to bottom.