Note 63 — ON ABSTINENCE FROM ANIMAL FOOD. BOOK THE SECOND.

This epithet is used in two of the Orphic hymns, viz. in Hymn LI. 7., and Hymn XXIX. 5. But the following appears to be the reason why Bacchus is so called. Bacchus is the intellect, and Ippa the soul of the world, according to the Orphic Theology; and the former is said by Orpheus to be carried on the head of the latter. For so we are informed by Proclus, in Tim. p. 124. Jacob de Rhoer, therefore, the editor of this work, was grossly mistaken in saying, “Non dubito, quin ωμαδιος Διονυσος, idem sit qui ωμηστης, crudivorus.” Scaliger, in his version of the Hymns, very improperly translates ωμαδιος bajulus, a porter. For Bacchus is carried on, but does not carry Ippa.