Note 371 — Chapter IV · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ORPHICI
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The first mention of such rites is said to have been made by Arctinus of Miletus in his Æthiopis, where he describes Ulysses as purifying Achilles for the murder of Thersites. See Grote’s History of Greece, 4th ed. vol. I. pp. 23, 24.