 Ceres' temple, games and cult were at least part-funded by fines imposed on those who offended the laws placed under her protection; the poet Vergil later calls her "legifera Ceres" (Law-bearing Ceres), a translation of Demeter's Greek epithet, "thesmophoros".As Ceres' first plough-furrow opened the earth (Tellus' realm) to the world of men and created the first field and its boundary, her laws determined the course of settled, lawful, civilised life.Crimes against fields and harvest were crimes against the people and their protective deity.