Re: If electors of Britain had seen that room, I seriously doubt they would h… – Dave B.

Quenten Letts, who was there, talks of Bacchanalian happenings:

‘By day they have talked of cuts. By night they have been Bacchanalian’

(He’s beginning to look a bit like Silvio Berlusconi

a far cry from his humiliation in 2007:

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2045260/Conservative-conference-2011-Its-time-party-end.html#ixzz1aCOXwtRj

I had never heard the term, and looked it up on Wikepedia:

‘ ….. Livy, reporting the evidence given by a woman who had been involved in the rites to a Roman investigative consul, writes:

there was no crime, no deed of shame, wanting. More uncleanness was committed by men with men than with women. Whoever would not submit to defilement, or shrank from violating others, was sacrificed as a victim. To regard nothing as impious or criminal was the sum total of their religion. The men, as though seized with madness and with frenzied distortions of their bodies, shrieked out prophecies; the matrons, dressed as Bacchae, their hair disheveled, rushed down to the Tiber River with burning torches, plunged them into the water, and drew them out again, the flame undiminished because they were made of sulfur mixed with lime. Men were fastened to a machine and hurried off to hidden caves, and they were said to have been taken away by the gods. These were the men who refused to join their conspiracy or take part in their crimes or submit to their pollution.^[2]

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