Note 1241 — Chapter X · ORPHIC MYSTERIES.
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The scattered sources for the Zagreus myth are given in full in Abel’s Orphica (p. 230 ff.). They appear to be all based on a lost poem or poems attributed to Orpheus of which Clement in the passage already discussed (p. 484) quotes two lines: ὡς ὁ τῆς τελετῆς ποιητὴς Ὀρφεύς φησιν ὁ Θρᾴκιος·
κῶνος καὶ ῥόμβος καὶ παίγνια καμπεσίγυια μῆλά τε χρύσεα καλὰ παρ’ Ἑσπερίδων λιγυφώνων,
and the scholiast on the passage observes (Dind. I. p. 433) ὠμὰ γὰρ ἤσθιον κρέα οἱ μυούμενοι Διονύσῳ, δεῖγμα τοῦτο τελούμενοι τοῦ σπαραγμοῦ ὃν ὑπέστη Διόνυσος ὑπὸ Τιτάνων.