Note 1236 — Chapter X · ORPHIC MYSTERIES.
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Plut. Vit. Them. XIII. In this same way a legend grew up and was accredited by Neanthes, the Cyzicene historian, that when Epimenides was ‘purifying Attica by human blood’ a youth, Kratinos, offered himself as a willing sacrifice. But how apocryphal such stories may be is owned by Athenaeus himself (XIII. 78 § 602), who adds after his narrative that he is aware that the whole story was said by Polemon to have been a fiction.