[130] The surname Eumolpidæ, given to the hierophants, successors of Orpheus, comes from the word Εὔμολπος, by which is designated the style of poetry of this divine man. It signifies _the perfect voice_. It is derived from the Phœnician words מלא (_mola_), perfected, and פאה (_phoh_), mouth, voice, discourse. The adverb ἔυ, which precedes it, expresses whatever is beautiful, holy, perfect. [131] Fabric., _Bibl. Græc._, p. 36, 105, 240, 469, _passim_; Arist., _Probl._, xix., 28; Meurs., _Bibl. Græc._, c. i. [132] Arist., _De Poët._, c. 8. [133] Porphyre, _In Vitâ Pythagor._, p. 21; Clem. Alex., l. vi., p. 658; Plato, _De Leg._, l. iii.; Plutar., _De Music._, p. 1141; Poll., l. iv., c. 9. [134] I have placed the epoch of Orpheus, which coincides with that of the arrival of the Egyptian colony conducted into Greece by Cecrops, at 1582 B.C., according to the marbles of Paros. [135] Schol. Aristoph., _In Nub._, v. 295. [136] Athen., l. ii., c. 3. [137] Voyez _L’Hist. du Théâtre Français_ de Fontenelle. Voici les titres des premières pièces représentées dans le cours du XIVᵉ siècle: _L’Assomption de la glorieuse Vierge Marie_, mystère à 38 personnages; _Le Mystère de la Sainte Hostie_, à 26 personn.; _Le Mystère de Monseigneur S. Pierre et S. Paul_, à 100 personn.; _Les Mystères de la Conception de la Passion, de la Résurrection de Notre Seigneur J. C._; etc. [138] See _Asiatic Researches_, v. iii., p. 427-431, and 465-467. Also _Grammar of the Bengal Language_, preface, p. v. [139] See _Interesting Historical Events_, by Holwell, ch. 7. [140] Aristot., _Probl._, 15, c. 19; Pausan., l. i., c. 7. [141] See _Asiatic Researches_, vol. vi., p. 300-308. [142] Rama is, in Sanskrit, the name of that which is dazzling, elevated, white, sublime, protective, beautiful, excellent. This word has exactly the same sense in the Phœnician רמ (_ram_). Its primitive root, which is universalized by the _hémantique_ letter מ (_m_), is רא (_ra_), which has reference to the harmonic movement of good, of light, and of sight. The name of the adversary of Rama, _Rawhan_, is formed from the root רע (_rawh_) which expresses, on the contrary, the disordered movement of evil and of fire, and which, becoming united with the augmentative syllable ון (_ôn_), depicts whatever ravages and ruins; this is the signification which it has in Sanskrit.