ORPHIC CRITICAL TESTIMONY 234

OTTO KERN

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SUMMARY: This testimony states that the comment of Charax of Pergamon that there was agreement between Orpheus, Pythagoras, and Plato on the oracles is false.

ORPHIC CRITICAL TESTIMONY 234

[(The following comment of) Khárax of Pǽrgamon (Χάραξ ὁ Περγαμηνός) is fabricated; but see v. nr. 9:

Συμφωνία Ὀρφέως Πυθαγόρου καὶ Πλάτωνος περὶ τὰ λόγια

“(There is) agreement of Orphéfs (Ὀρφεύς), Pythagóras (Πυθαγόρας), and Plátôn (Πλάτων) on the oracles”

(Eudocia Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum {FHG} III 636 v. Otto Kern Orpheus 1 n. 1)]


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