Note 417 — Chapter IV · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ORPHICI
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Such as the Mysteries of Samothrace, held in honour, according to one account, of Pluto, Demeter, and Persephone, together with Hermes. See Maury, op. cit. II. pp. 306 sqq. for authorities. It was at these mysteries that Philip of Macedon was said to have first seen and loved Olympias (Plutarch, Alexander, c. 2).