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For links to many more fragments: The Orphic Fragments of Otto Kern.

SUMMARY: In this fragment, Zeus gives Dionysus to the Gods as their king.

208. (190) σχόλιον Πρόκλου επὶ Κρατύλου Πλάτωνος 396b p. 55, 5 Giorgio Pasquali:

καὶ ὁ Διόνυσος <ὁ add. Kroll> τελευταῖος θεῶν βασιλεὺς παρὰ τοῦ Διός· ὁ γὰρ πατὴρ ἱδρύει τε αὐτὸν ἐν τῶι βασιλείωι θρόνωι καὶ ἐγχειρίζει τὸ σκῆπτρον καὶ βασιλέα ποιεῖ τῶν ἐγκοσμίων ἁπάντων θεῶν·

κλῦτε, θεοί· τόνδ’ ὔμμιν ἐγὼ βασιλήα τίθημι

λέγει πρὸς τοὺς νέους θεοὺς (v. fragments 205 and 207) ὁ Ζεύς.

“[For Night (Νύξ) receives the sceptre from Phanes; Heaven (Οὐρανός) derives from Night, the dominion over wholes; ...]

“...and Bacchus (Διόνυσος) who is the last king of the Gods receives the kingdom from Jupiter (Ζεύς). For the father (Ζεύς) establishes him in the royal throne, puts into his hand the sceptre, and makes him the king of all the mundane Gods:

‘Hear me ye Gods, I place over you a king.’

“says Jupiter to the junior (νέος, younger) Gods (v. fragments 205 and 207).”

(trans. Thomas Taylor, 1816)

σχόλιον Ὀλυμπιοδώρου επὶ Φαίδωνος Πλάτωνος B δ’ p. 85, 9 William Norvin:

ὅτι τὰ μὲν περὶ μονάδος καὶ τριάδος ἀληθῶς εἴρηται, Τιτᾶνας δὲ τῶι Διονύσωι ἐπιβουλεύοντας ἄλλης εἶναι φήσομεν ἰδιότητος· οὐδεὶς γὰρ ἀριθμὸς ἐναντιοῦται τῆι οἰκείαι μονάδι οὐδὲ ἀναιρεῖ αὐτήν, ἢ οὕτω γε καὶ ἑαυτόν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ Ζεύς οὐ πρὸς τοὺς Τιτᾶνας λέγει, ἀλλὰ πρὸς τοὺς ἄλλους θεούς·

κλύτε, (θεοί, τόνδ’ ύμμιν εγώ)* βασιλῆα δίδωμι.

ἐπεὶ καὶ ὁ Διόνυσος ἐν μὲν τῶι θρόνωι τοῦ Διὸς ἀμέριστος ............... εἰς τοὺς Τιτᾶνας μερι ............ ρακῶς μεταμορφοῦται.

“That has truly been said concerning the monads and triads, and we would like to say that (the reason for) the Titanǽs (Τιτᾶνες) plotting against Diónysos (Διόνυσος) is of a different particular character; for not one number is in opposition to its familial monad and does not destroy this, or thus, also, itself, but also Zefs (Ζεύς) does not say to the Titanǽs, but (rather) to the other Gods:

‘Listen, oh Gods, this one I give to all of you as king.’

And since Diónysos (sits) on the throne of Zefs indivisible ...... (lost text)..... in the Titanǽs, you who share .....(lost text) ..... is transformed.”

(trans. by the author)

*There are no parenthesis in Norvin.

Lobeck I 552.

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