Taylor - Eleusianian and Bacchic Mysteries.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

Bacchic Mysteries. 223discovered in the British Museum ;and theexistence of which appears to have beenhitherto utterly unknown.This hymnis tobe found among the Harleian Manuscripts,in a volume containing several of the Orphichymns, with which, through the ignorance oftranscriber, it is indiscriminately ranked, aswell as the other four hymns of Proclus,already printedin the BibliothecaFabricius. Unfortunately too,scribed in a character soGrceca ofit is tranobscure, and withsuch great inaccuracy, that, notwithstandingthe painsto its original purity,I have taken to restore the textI have been obliged toomit two lines, and part of a third, as beyondmy abilities to read or amend ; however, thegreatest, and doubtless the most importantwhich I nowpart, is fortunately intelligible,present to the reader s inspection, accompanied with some corrections, and an Englishparaphrased translation. The original ishighly elegant and pious,mythological particular,else to be found.and contains onewhich isno whereIt has likewise an evidentconnection with the preceding fable of Bac-