Eleusis

, or Eleusin , a town of Attica, equally distant from Megara and the Piræus, celebrated for the festivals of Ceres. See: Eleusinia . It was founded by Trip tole mus. Ovid , bk. 4 , Fasti , ♦ li. 507 .— Pausanias , bk. 9 , ch. 24 . ♦ extraneous reference ‘5,’ removed