Note 449 — Chapter IV · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ORPHICI
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That this may have been thought to be the result of the mystic union of the initiate with Dionysos seems possible from the statement of Plutarch, that this last was born as a man, but by his merit was translated from this earthly and suffering body, Life of Pelopidas, c. XVI. Cf. Budge, Pseudo-Callisthenes’ Life of Alexander the Great, p. 135.