ORPHIC CRITICAL TESTIMONY 49

OTTO KERN

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SUMMARY: This testimony says that Orpheus drew together trees and beasts of the fields with his lyre-playing and songs.

ORPHIC CRITICAL TESTIMONY 49.

Βάκχαι Εὐριπίδου 560:

τάχα δ᾽ ἐν ταῖς πολυδένδρεσσιν Ὀλύμπου θαλάμαις, ἔνθα ποτ᾽ Ὀρφεὺς κιθαρίζων σύναγεν δένδρεα μούσαις, σύναγεν θῆρας ἀγρώτας.

“Perhaps in the deep-wooded lairs of Olympus, where Orpheus once playing the lyre drew together trees by his songs, drew together the beasts of the fields.”

(trans. T. A. Buckley, 1850)


v. nr. 38.


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