ORPHIC CRITICAL TESTIMONY 187

OTTO KERN

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SUMMARY: This testimony, from Sextus Empiricus the Pyrrhonist philosopher, counts Onomacritus among the Orphics. There are also two quotes from Pausanias the geographer referring to the poetry of Onomacritus.

ORPHIC CRITICAL TESTIMONY 187

Πυῤῥώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις τοῦ Σέξτου Ἐμπειρικοῦ III 30 (I 141 Mutschm.) and Adversus Physicos I 361 (II 287 M.) (nr. 191):

Ὀνομάκριτος ἐν τοῖς Ὀρφικοῖς

“Onomákritos among the Orphics.”

(trans. by the author)

Ἑλλάδος Περιήγησις Παυσανίου 8.31.3 (Ἀρκαδίας):

Ὀνομάκριτός φησιν ἐν τοῖς ἔπεσι.

“...Onomákritos says in his poetry...”

(trans. by the author)

Ἑλλάδος Περιήγησις Παυσανίου 9.35.5 (Βοιωτία):

κατὰ ταὐτὰ δὲ ἐν ἔπεσίν ἐστι τοῖς Ὀνομακρίτου.

“The poem of Onomacritus agrees with this account.”

(trans. W. H. S. Jones, 1918)

See nr. 192.


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