Note 429 — Chapter IV · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ORPHICI
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Purser, ubi cit. supra, speaks of it as “an ascetic religious brotherhood,” as did K. O. Müller, Introduction to a Scientific System of Mythology (Eng. ed.), p. 318, and Litt. of Ant. Greece, I. p. 307. Döllinger, Jud. und Heid. I. p. 161, says truly that there is no evidence that at any time there existed a regularly formed association of Orphici in Greece. So Monceaux in Daremberg and Saglio, s.v. Orpheus.