Note 1557 — Chapter XII · ORPHIC COSMOGONY.
Reading edition
This fact, that eggs were offered to the dead, has been clearly established by Dr Martin Nilsson in his tract Das Ei im Totenkultus der Griechen. The ‘Sonderabdruck’ he has kindly sent me appeared in the Frân Filologiska Föreningen i Lund Språkliga uppsatser II. (Lund, 1902).