Note 368 — Chapter IV · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ORPHICI

Lobeck in his Aglaophamus, Königsberg, 1829, vol. I. pp. 233-1104, makes this clear. It was also the opinion of Aristotle according to Cicero (de Nat. Deor. Bk I. c. 38). Other authorities are collected by Purser in his article “Orphica” in Smith’s Dict. of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 1890, vol. II. who quotes with approval Preller’s remark that Orpheus was “eine litterarische Collectivperson.” See also Paul Monceaux in Daremberg and Saglio’s Dict. des Antiq. s.v. Orphica.