In the early 7th century BCE, after the king Aristocrates of Orchomenus raped one of the priestesses in the temple, it was deemed that the priestess should always be a married woman,Pausanias, Description of Greece viii. 5. § 8, 12. § 3, 13. §§ 1,4. or, according to some, an elderly woman, or one who had simply ceased or had had "enough" sex with men.
