Note 1296 — Chapter X · ORPHIC MYSTERIES.
Reading edition
Aether, air and whirlwind frequently appear in the Orphic fragments preserved to us, e.g. Damasc. Quaest. de primis princ. p. 147 καὶ γὰρ Ὀρφεύς·
ἔπειτα δ’ ἔτευξε μέγας Χρόνος αἰθέρι δίῳ ὠεὸν ἀργύρεον,
and in the fragment of a hymn to the Sun preserved by Macrobius Sat. I. 23. 22. Solem esse omnia et Orpheus testatur his versibus:
κέκλυθι τηλεπόρου δίνης ἑλικαυγέα κύκλον οὐρανίαις στροφάλιγξι περίδρομον αἰὲν ἑλίσσων ἀγλαὲ Ζεῦ Διόνυσε, πάτερ πόντου, πάτερ αἴης, Ἥλιε παγγενέτωρ παναίολε χρυσεοφεγγές,
words which might have been sung by Sokrates in his basket.