Note 1459 — Chapter XI · ORPHIC ESCHATOLOGY.
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Clem. Alex. Strom. V. p. 242 διὰ δὲ συμβόλων, ὡς ὅ τε τροχὸς ὁ στρεφόμενος ἐν τοῖς τῶν θεῶν τεμένεσιν εἱλκυσμένος παρὰ Αἰγυπτίων.
I have throughout translated κύκλος by wheel. The same idea is rendered indifferently by τροχός and κύκλος, though κύκλος occurs more frequently: cf. Proclus ad Tim. p. 330 A κύκλος τῆς γενέσεως, ἐν τῷ τῆς εἱμαρμένης ... τροχῷ. The same thing is in English a ‘cycle,’ in American a ‘wheel.’ In the Orphic Hades of Vergil the κύκλος is a rota.