The Orphic verses περι φυσεως are to the same purpose.
Παντων μεν συ πατηρ, μητηρ, τροφος, ηδε τιθηιος. Hymn 9. v. 18.
[944] Orphic Hymn 31. v. 10. p. 224.
[945] Orphic Fragment. vi. p. 366. Gesner's Edit. from Proclus on Plato's Alcibiades. See also Poesis Philosophica H. Stephani. p. 81.
[946] Jupiter Lucetius, or God of light. Macrob. Sat. l. 1. c. 15. p. 182.
[947] Orphic Fragm. vii. p. 371. See Poesis Philosoph. H. Stephani. p. 85.
Orpheus of Protogonus.
Πρωτογον', Ηρικαπαιε, θεων πατερ, ηδε και ὑιε. Hymn. 51. p. 246.
[948] Apuleii Metamorph. l. xi. p. 241.
[949] Porphyr. apud Eusebium Præp. Evang. l. 3. c. 11.