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Ἕλληνες δὲ οὔτε παρ᾽ Αἰθιόπων οὔτε παρ᾽ Αἰγυπτίων ἀστρολογίης πέρι οὐδὲν ἤκουσαν, ἀλλὰ σφίσιν Ὀρφεὺς ὁ Οἰάγρου καὶ Καλλιόπης πρῶτος τάδε ἀπηγήσατο, οὐ μάλα ἐμφανέως, οὐδὲ ἐς φάος τὸν λόγον προήνεγκεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐς γοητείην καὶ ἱερολογίην, οἵη διανοίη ἐκείνου. πηξάμενος γὰρ λύρην ὄργιά τε ἐποιέετο καὶ τὰ ἱερὰ ἤειδεν:
ἡ δὲ λύρη ἑπτάμιτος ἐοῦσα τὴν τῶν κινεομένων ἀστέρων ἁρμονίην συνεβάλλετο. ταῦτα Ὀρφεὺς διζήμενος καὶ ταῦτα ἀνακινέων πάντα ἔθελγεν καὶ πάντων ἐκράτεεν οὐ γὰρ ἐκείνην τὴν λύρην ἔβλεπεν οὐδὲ οἱ ἄλλης ἔμελε μουσουργίης, ἀλλ᾽
αὕτη Ὀρφέος ἡ μεγάλη λύρη, Ἕλληνές τε τάδε τιμέοντες μοίρην ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ^ ἀπέκριναν καὶ ἀστέρες πολλοὶ καλέονται λύρη Ὀρφέος.
ἢν δέ κοτε Ὀρφέα ἴδῃς ἢ λίθοισιν ἢ χροιῇ] μεμιμημένον, μέσῳ ἕζεται ἴκελος ἀείδοντι, μετὰ
[p. 356] χερσὶν ἔχων τὴν λύρην, ἀμφὶ δέ μιν ζῷα μυρία
ἕστηκεν, ἐν οἷς καὶ ταῦρος καὶ ἄνθρωπος καὶ λέων
καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἕκαστον. εὖτ᾽ ἂν ἐκεῖνα ἴδῃς,
μέμνησό μοι τουτέων, κοίη ἐκείνου ἀοιδή, κοίη
δὲ καὶ ἡ λύρη, κοῖος δὲ καὶ ταῦρος ἢ ὁκοῖος λέων
Ὀρφέος ἐπαΐουσιν. ἢν δὲ τὰ λέγω αἴτια γνοίης,
σὺ δὲ καὶ ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ δέρκεο ἕκαστον τουτέων.
Lucian. Works. with an English Translation by. A. M. Harmon. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. 5.
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