ORPHIC FRAGMENT 264
OTTO KERN
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SUMMARY: This fragment is another excerpt from the Dodekaeteris.
Excerpt from the Δωδεκαετηρίς V (compare to Orphic Fragment 251):
τὸ [δ’ αὐτοῦ] ἔτος Ἥλιος καύσωνι ῥίψει· αὐχμηρὸς γὰρ καιρὸς γένηται· καὶ τὰ σπέρματα πάντα μαρανεῖ· λοιμὸς γὰρ γένηται μέγας εἰς πάντα.
“When Ílios (Ἥλιος) will hurl down with burning heat; for the season should be dry; and all the seeds will wither; in fact, a great plague should come to all.”
(trans. by the author)
Translator’s note: In Josef Heeg’s inaugural dissertation Die Angeblichen Orphischen ΕΡΓΑ ΚΑΙ ΗΜΕΡΑΙ on p. 29 fr. 12, the above fragment follows the quotation from Tzetzes in Orphic fragment 263, so I assume this is during the year “when Jupiter crosses through Aquarius.”
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