Note 1399 — Chapter X · ORPHIC MYSTERIES. (continued 2)

Od. V. 125 νειῷ ἔνι τριπόλῳ. I venture to render τριπόλῳ by ‘in the spring,’ because Theophrastos (H.P. VII. 1) says there were three ploughings, one in the winter, one in the summer and a third between the two (ἄροτος τρίτος ὁ μεταξύ τούτων) which must have been in the spring before the seed was sown. Triptolemos is the Eleusinian Iasion.