Note 1252 — Chapter X · ORPHIC MYSTERIES.
Reading edition
v. 12 μητρί τ’ ὀρείᾳ δᾷδας ἀνασχών. In the recently discovered fragment of Timotheos (v. 135) it is to the ‘Mountain Mother’ that the drowning sailor would pray:
εἰ δυνατὰ πρὸς μελαμπεταλο- χίτωνα Ματρὸς οὐρεί- ας δεσπόσυνα γόνατα πεσεῖν....
See Timotheos, Die Perser, Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1903.