ORPHIC CRITICAL TESTIMONY 88

OTTO KERN

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SUMMARY: This testimony calls Orpheus the prophet and companion of Apollo.

ORPHIC CRITICAL TESTIMONY 88.

Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoses XI 8

vatis Apollinei

“of the prophet of Apollo”

Kern Orpheus 7 n. 1.

Publii Papinii Statii Silvae V 1, 23:

Licet ipse levandos ad gemitus silvis comitatus et amnibus Orpheus adforet atque omnis pariter matertera vatem, omnis Apollineus tegeret Bacchique sacerdos.

“Though Orpheus, whom stream and forest followed, had come to ease his sorrow, though all the Muses had attended upon their sister Calliope's son and all the prophets of Apollo and of Bacchus had surrounded the melodist...”

(trans. D. A. Slater, 1908)

V. Raschke De Alberico myth. 86. Ὀρφεὺς Ἀπόλλωνος ἑταῖρος “Orpheus the companion of Apollo” nr. 141.

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