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Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion

Note 1363 — Chapter X · ORPHIC MYSTERIES. (continued 2)

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Nonn. XLVIII. 951 ff.

καὶ τριτάτῳ νέον ὕμνον ἐπεσμαράγησαν Ἰάκχῳ καὶ χορὸν ὀψιτέλεστον ἀνεκρούσαντο πολῖται Ζαγρέα κυδαίνοντες ἅμα Βρομίῳ καὶ Ἰάκχῳ.

That the child Iacchos at Eleusis became an element in Orphic teaching is evident from the degraded form of the Baubo legend expressed in an Orphic hymn and quoted in full by Clement, Protr. 21. 26, see Dindorf, vol. IV. p. 11.

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