The Feast of Bacchus

NOT long after this the king sent an old man of Athens to compel the Yahudiym to depart from the Torah of their fathers, and not to live after the Torah of Elohiym: And to pollute also the Temple in Yerushalayim, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius; and that in Geriziym, of Jupiter the Defender of strangers, as they did desire that dwelt in the place. The coming in of this mischief was sore and grievous to the people: For the Temple was filled with riot and revelling by the other natinos, who dallied with harlots, and had to do with women within the circuit of the holy places, and besides that brought in things that were against the Torah. 'The altar also was filled with profane things, which the Torah forbids. 'Neither was it lawful for a man to guard days of Shabbath or ancient feasts, or to profess himself at all to be a Yahudiy.

'And in the day of the king's birth every month they were brought by bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices; and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, the Yahudiym were compelled to go in procession to Bacchus, carrying ivy. MAKKABIYM SHENIY (2 MACCABEES) 1:7 את CEPHER