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spirits tread ; he shall attend, surely, on none but that Zeus who is named of
Freedom1.'
More definitely Orphic are the gold tablets from Corigliano2, in
which the soul, addressing the Queen of the Underworld together
with Eukles3, Eubouleus4, and the other immortal gods, claims to
1 Loukian. Dem. 50 d\A' 6 p.ev oixeTaL (Slov e^wv Tov ev p.aKapLov vrjffois ripwuvXeyotxevov,
7) rets els ovpavbv \pvxaTs vopii'op.evas bdovs, diraoos tls oa.Lp.10v iaopevos 'EXevdepiov Aids,
k.t.\. trans. H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler.
2 Three small plates of gold obtained in 1880 from graves in the territory of Thourioi
(near Corigliano). They were first published by G. Fiorelli in the Atti della R. Accademia
dci Lined anno CCLXXVII (1879—1880). Serie Terza. Memorie della Classe di Scienze
Morali, Storiche e Filologiche. Roma 1880 v. 400—410 pi. 3, 1—7)=Not. Scavi 1880
pp. 152—162 pi. 6, 1—3, cp. id. 1879 pp. 156—159. See also D. Comparetti 'The
Petelia gold tablet' in the Journ. Hell. Stud. 1883 iii. 111—118, id. Laminette Orfiche
edite ed illustrate Firenze 1910 pp. 1—32 with 4 pis. (reviewed by O. Gruppe in the Berl.
philol. Woch. Jan. 27, 1912 p. 103 ft".), G. Kaibel Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. no. 641, A. Dieterich
de hymnis Orphicis Marpurgj Cattorum 1891 p. 30ft. ( = R7eiue Schriften Leipzig and
Berlin 1911 p. 91 ft.), O. Hoffmann in Collitz—Bechtel Gr. Dial.-Inschr. ii. 161 f.
no. 1654, Harrison Proleg. Gk. Rel." p. 585 ft"., G. Murray id. p. 667ft., L. Radermacher
' Orphica " in the Rhein. Mus. 1912 lxvii. 472—477, H. Allene ' Le paradis orphique et la
formule epi<pos e's ydX' twerov ' in Eevia Hommage Internatio?iale a f Universite Nationale
de Grece a /'occasion du soixante-qitinzieme Anniversaire de sa fondation {1837—1912)
Athens 1912, A. Delatte 'Inscriptions orphiques sur tablettes d'or.' in the Mitstle Beige
1912 p. 125 ft- (noted by L. R. Farnell in The Year's Work in Class. Stud, igij
p. 135), J. H. Wieten De tribus laminis aureis quae in septdcris TJiurinis sunt inventae
Amstelodami 1915 pp. 1—172. Supra i. 650 n. o, 675f-
3 /user. Gr. Sie. It. no. 641 i, 2 f. Ei'/cXt)s EvfiovXevs re koI a.\66.vaTOL deoi aAXot,
cp. id. ii, 3 f. Eu/cXe /cat EvfiovXev /cat deoi 5at(ao[^]1e(s) aXXot, iii, 2 ft. (E)vK\eva Kail)
Ev.(3o(v)Xev /cat dtoi ocroi d(aijp.o\ves aXAo(t). Ei'/cX^s or Eu/cXos is a euphemistic name for
Hades (Hesych. evK\r)s- 6 aidys. Kal ovopaaros. Kai eueidris (sic cod. evK\eiris ■ 6 aiBrjuwu
Musurus : M. Schmidt ad loc. cj. that there is a confusion in the text between evKXrjis-
6"Ai5r)s, 'bene obseratus,' and et'/cXetijs. F. Biicheler in the Rhein. A/us. 1881 xxxvi. 333
restores ~Evx\rjs' "AiSt/s)) like Ev(3ov\evs, EuetS^s, Ei'xat'r??s etc. (Rohde Psyche" p. 206 f.,
0. Jessen in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vi. 862, 880, 1053, infra Append. M). It probably
occurs on a bronze tablet from Agnone, now in the British Museum, as part of a lengthy
Oscan inscription: Evklui statif...Evkhu Paterei statlf...Evklul..., i.e. ' Fuclo statua...
Euclo Patri statua...Fuclo...' (see J. Zvetaieff Sylloge inscriptionum Oscarum Petropoli
1878 p. 6 ft. no. 9 pi. 2, id. /nscriptiones /taliae Inferioris dialecticae Mosquae 1886
p. 32 ft. no. 87, R. S. Conway The /talic Dialects Cambridge 1897 i. 191 ft". Oscan
no. 175, C. D. Buck A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian Boston, U.S.A. 1904 p. 254 ft".
Oscan no. 45). Conway op. cit. ii. 619 and Buck op. cit. pp. 20, 46 treat Evkh'ii as
Ei)/co>.cj, an epithet of Hermes at Metapontum (Hesych. s.v. Eif/coXo?, Anth. Pal. 9. 72. 1
Antipatros : O. Jessen in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vi. 1055 (.). But Ei"/coAos as epithet
of a chthonian power (Aristoph. ran. 82 6 5' eu/coXos p.ev £vdaS\ Eu/coXos 5' e/cet involves a
pun) may be only the last term of the series Eu/cXe-^s, Ei5/cX?}s, E5/cXos, Eu/c(o)Xoj. This is
seen by J. H. Wieten op. cit. p. 31 ff., though I should not agree with his contention that
the whole series was ab initio an appellative of Hermes. Cp. Zeus EiVXetos (Bakchyl.
1. 6 ff. [A]i6s Et}/cXetoi< 8e e[^]a|rt fiadvfavov Kopav | [A]ei;i8ea.v Sdpaaev sc. Minos), Ef/cXeta
or Artemis Etf/cXeta (O. Jessen in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vi. 996 ff.), the festival
EvKXeia (Nilsson Gr. Teste p. 237 f.), and the month Eu/cXetos (E. Bischoff ' De fastis
Graecorum antiquioribus' in the Leipziger Studien zur classischen Philologie Leipzig 1884
vii. 372 ff., W. Dittenberger in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vi. 1052 f.);
4 H. W. Stoll in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1397, S. Reinach in Daremberg—Saglio
spirits tread ; he shall attend, surely, on none but that Zeus who is named of
Freedom1.'
More definitely Orphic are the gold tablets from Corigliano2, in
which the soul, addressing the Queen of the Underworld together
with Eukles3, Eubouleus4, and the other immortal gods, claims to
1 Loukian. Dem. 50 d\A' 6 p.ev oixeTaL (Slov e^wv Tov ev p.aKapLov vrjffois ripwuvXeyotxevov,
7) rets els ovpavbv \pvxaTs vopii'op.evas bdovs, diraoos tls oa.Lp.10v iaopevos 'EXevdepiov Aids,
k.t.\. trans. H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler.
2 Three small plates of gold obtained in 1880 from graves in the territory of Thourioi
(near Corigliano). They were first published by G. Fiorelli in the Atti della R. Accademia
dci Lined anno CCLXXVII (1879—1880). Serie Terza. Memorie della Classe di Scienze
Morali, Storiche e Filologiche. Roma 1880 v. 400—410 pi. 3, 1—7)=Not. Scavi 1880
pp. 152—162 pi. 6, 1—3, cp. id. 1879 pp. 156—159. See also D. Comparetti 'The
Petelia gold tablet' in the Journ. Hell. Stud. 1883 iii. 111—118, id. Laminette Orfiche
edite ed illustrate Firenze 1910 pp. 1—32 with 4 pis. (reviewed by O. Gruppe in the Berl.
philol. Woch. Jan. 27, 1912 p. 103 ft".), G. Kaibel Inscr. Gr. Sic. It. no. 641, A. Dieterich
de hymnis Orphicis Marpurgj Cattorum 1891 p. 30ft. ( = R7eiue Schriften Leipzig and
Berlin 1911 p. 91 ft.), O. Hoffmann in Collitz—Bechtel Gr. Dial.-Inschr. ii. 161 f.
no. 1654, Harrison Proleg. Gk. Rel." p. 585 ft"., G. Murray id. p. 667ft., L. Radermacher
' Orphica " in the Rhein. Mus. 1912 lxvii. 472—477, H. Allene ' Le paradis orphique et la
formule epi<pos e's ydX' twerov ' in Eevia Hommage Internatio?iale a f Universite Nationale
de Grece a /'occasion du soixante-qitinzieme Anniversaire de sa fondation {1837—1912)
Athens 1912, A. Delatte 'Inscriptions orphiques sur tablettes d'or.' in the Mitstle Beige
1912 p. 125 ft- (noted by L. R. Farnell in The Year's Work in Class. Stud, igij
p. 135), J. H. Wieten De tribus laminis aureis quae in septdcris TJiurinis sunt inventae
Amstelodami 1915 pp. 1—172. Supra i. 650 n. o, 675f-
3 /user. Gr. Sie. It. no. 641 i, 2 f. Ei'/cXt)s EvfiovXevs re koI a.\66.vaTOL deoi aAXot,
cp. id. ii, 3 f. Eu/cXe /cat EvfiovXev /cat deoi 5at(ao[^]1e(s) aXXot, iii, 2 ft. (E)vK\eva Kail)
Ev.(3o(v)Xev /cat dtoi ocroi d(aijp.o\ves aXAo(t). Ei'/cX^s or Eu/cXos is a euphemistic name for
Hades (Hesych. evK\r)s- 6 aidys. Kal ovopaaros. Kai eueidris (sic cod. evK\eiris ■ 6 aiBrjuwu
Musurus : M. Schmidt ad loc. cj. that there is a confusion in the text between evKXrjis-
6"Ai5r)s, 'bene obseratus,' and et'/cXetijs. F. Biicheler in the Rhein. A/us. 1881 xxxvi. 333
restores ~Evx\rjs' "AiSt/s)) like Ev(3ov\evs, EuetS^s, Ei'xat'r??s etc. (Rohde Psyche" p. 206 f.,
0. Jessen in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vi. 862, 880, 1053, infra Append. M). It probably
occurs on a bronze tablet from Agnone, now in the British Museum, as part of a lengthy
Oscan inscription: Evklui statif...Evkhu Paterei statlf...Evklul..., i.e. ' Fuclo statua...
Euclo Patri statua...Fuclo...' (see J. Zvetaieff Sylloge inscriptionum Oscarum Petropoli
1878 p. 6 ft. no. 9 pi. 2, id. /nscriptiones /taliae Inferioris dialecticae Mosquae 1886
p. 32 ft. no. 87, R. S. Conway The /talic Dialects Cambridge 1897 i. 191 ft". Oscan
no. 175, C. D. Buck A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian Boston, U.S.A. 1904 p. 254 ft".
Oscan no. 45). Conway op. cit. ii. 619 and Buck op. cit. pp. 20, 46 treat Evkh'ii as
Ei)/co>.cj, an epithet of Hermes at Metapontum (Hesych. s.v. Eif/coXo?, Anth. Pal. 9. 72. 1
Antipatros : O. Jessen in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vi. 1055 (.). But Ei"/coAos as epithet
of a chthonian power (Aristoph. ran. 82 6 5' eu/coXos p.ev £vdaS\ Eu/coXos 5' e/cet involves a
pun) may be only the last term of the series Eu/cXe-^s, Ei5/cX?}s, E5/cXos, Eu/c(o)Xoj. This is
seen by J. H. Wieten op. cit. p. 31 ff., though I should not agree with his contention that
the whole series was ab initio an appellative of Hermes. Cp. Zeus EiVXetos (Bakchyl.
1. 6 ff. [A]i6s Et}/cXetoi< 8e e[^]a|rt fiadvfavov Kopav | [A]ei;i8ea.v Sdpaaev sc. Minos), Ef/cXeta
or Artemis Etf/cXeta (O. Jessen in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vi. 996 ff.), the festival
EvKXeia (Nilsson Gr. Teste p. 237 f.), and the month Eu/cXetos (E. Bischoff ' De fastis
Graecorum antiquioribus' in the Leipziger Studien zur classischen Philologie Leipzig 1884
vii. 372 ff., W. Dittenberger in Pauly—Wissowa Real-Enc. vi. 1052 f.);
4 H. W. Stoll in Roscher Lex. Myth. i. 1397, S. Reinach in Daremberg—Saglio