A new system, or, An analysis of ancient mythology : wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable, and to reduce the truth to its original purity ... . us, he had no fhare in that expedition. To remedy the inconliftences, which arife in the hiftoryof Orpheus, writers have fuppofcd many perfons of thisname. Suidas takes notice of no lefs than four in *^ all thefe will not make the hiftory confident. Voiiiustherefore with good rcafon doubts, whether fuch a perfonever exifled. Nay, he aflerts, *^Triumviros iftos Poefeos,Orphea, Muf^um, Linum, non fuiffe: fed efle nomina aban
A new system, or, An analysis of ancient mythology : wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable, and to reduce the truth to its original purity ... . us, he had no fhare in that expedition. To remedy the inconliftences, which arife in the hiftoryof Orpheus, writers have fuppofcd many perfons of thisname. Suidas takes notice of no lefs than four in *^ all thefe will not make the hiftory confident. Voiiiustherefore with good rcafon doubts, whether fuch a perfonever exifled. Nay, he aflerts, *^Triumviros iftos Poefeos,Orphea, Muf^um, Linum, non fuiffe: fed efle nomina abantiqua Phoenicum lingua, qua ufi Cadmus, et aliquamdiupofleri. There is great truth in what VofTius here advan-ces: and in refpedl to Orpheus, the tefliimony of Ariflotle,quoted by him from Cicero, is very decifive. *^Orpheumpoetam docet Ariftoteles nunquam fuifle. Dionyfius, aswe learn from Suidas, afHrmed the fame thing. Palsphatus 3 Suidas, 0^(peu?. *+ Tzetzes makes him live one hundred years before the war of Troy, Chil. 12. ** Voffius de Arte Poet. C. 13. p. 78. 7 Cicero de Nat. Deor. L. i. c. 38. See alfo ^lian. Var. Hift. L. 8. c. 6. indeed.
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