[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.