[1020] Scholia in Alcestin. v. 968. Concerning Orpheus, see Diodorus. l. 1. p. 86. Aristoph. Ranæ. v. 1064. Euseb. P. E. lib. 10. p. 469. [1021] L. 22. See Natalis comes. l. 7. p. 401. [1022] L. 9. p. 768. [1023] V. 41. [1024] Ibid. v. 99. [1025] L. 6. p. 505. [1026] Apollon. Rhod. l. 1. v. 23. [1027] Scholia. ibid. [1028] Natalis Comes. l. 7. p. 400. [1029] De Repub. l. 2. p. 364. Musæus is likewise, by the Scholiast upon Aristophanes, styled ὑιος Σεληνης. Ranæ. v. 106. Schol. [1030] Lucian. Astrologus. [1031] See Lilius Gyraldus de Poetarum Hist. Dialog. 2. p. 73. Ορφευς, φορμικτας αοιδαν πατηρ. Pindar. Pyth. Ode. 4. p. 253. [1032] Clementis Cohort. p. 12. Diog. Laert. Proœm. p. 3. Herodotus. l. 2. c. 49. Diodorus. l. 1. p. 87. l. 3. p. 300. Apollodorus. l. 1. p. 7. [1033] Linus was the son of Apollo and Calliope. See Suidas, Λινος. [1034] There were, in like manner, different places where he was supposed to have been buried. [1035] Proœm. p. 5. Antholog. l. 3. p. 270. In like manner Zoroaster was said to have been slain by lightning. [1036] Suidas, Ορφευς. [1037] Tzetzes makes him live one hundred years before the war of Troy. Hist. 399. Chil. 12. [1038] Ορφευς. [1039] Vossius de Arte Poet. c. 13. p. 78. [1040] Cicero de Nat. Deor. l. 1. c. 38. See also Ælian. Var. Hist. l. 8. c. 6. [1041] C. 24. p. 84. [1042] Through the whole of this I am obliged to dissent from a person of great erudition, the late celebrated Professor I. M. Gesner, of Gottingen: to whom, however, I am greatly indebted, and particularly for his curious edition of the Orphic poems, published at Leipsick, 1764. [1043] All the Orphic rites were confessedly from Egypt. Diodorus above. See Lucian's Astrologus. [1044] Suidas. [1045] Maximus Tyrius. c. 37. p. 441. [1046] Scholia upon the Hecuba of Euripides. v. 1267. See also the Alcestis. v. 968. [1047] Plato de Repub. l. 10. p. 620. [1048] Diodorus. l. 4. p. 282. The history of Aristæus is nearly a parody of the histories of Orpheus and Cadmus. [1049] Ovid. Metamorph. l. 10. v. 81. The like mentioned of the Cadmians. See Æschylus. Ἑπτ' επι Θηβαις. Proœm. Ælian. Var. Hist. l. 13. c. 5. [1050] Hecatæus apud Steph. Byzant. Λημνος. The first inhabitants are said to have been Thracians, styled Σιντιες και Σαπαιοι; the chief cities Myrina, and Hephaistia. [1051] Philostrati Heroica. p. 677. εν κοιλῃ τη γῃ χρησμωδει. [1052] Steph Byz. Χαλδαιος. [1053] Pocock's Travels. vol. 2. p. 159. [1054] Pausan. l. 6. p. 505. [1055] See Huetii Demonst. Evang. pr. 4. p. 129. [1056] Στικτους δ' ἡμαξαντο βραχιονας, αμφι μελαινη Δευομεναι σποδιη θρηικιον πλοκαμον. Antholog. l. 3. p. 270. [1057] Servius in Virgil. eclog. 8. See Salmasius upon Solinus. p. 425. [1058] Περι την πεντηκοστην Ολυμπιαδα. Tatianus. Assyr. p. 275. These were the Orphic hymns, which were sung by the Lycomedæ at Athens. [1059] Diodorus Sic. l. 5. p. 322. [1060]