ORPHIC CRITICAL TESTIMONY 48

OTTO KERN

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SUMMARY: This testimony says that Orpheus led all things by the charm of his voice.

ORPHIC CRITICAL TESTIMONY 48.

Ὀρέστεια Ἀγαμέμνων Αἰσχύλου 1629:

Ὀρφεῖ δὲ γλῶσσαν τὴν ἐναντίαν ἔχεις·

ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἦγε πάντ᾽ ἀπὸ φθογγῆς χαρᾶι.

“Truly a tongue opposed to Orpheus hast thou:

For he (Orpheus) led all things by his voice's grace-charm”

(trans. Robert Browning, 1889)


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