The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

ADDITIONAL NOTES.
THE following Additional Notes are given for the pur-
pose of elucidating the Orphic theology, with which the
preceding hymns are replete. They form the greater
part of the Scholia of Proclus on the Cratylus of Plato,
a work inestimably valuable to the student of the Grecian
theology, and which has been recently published with
very valuable critical notes by the most learned Pro-
fessor Boissonade. The following translation, however,
was made by me many years ago from a manuscript of
this work, which is a copy of an original in the posses-
sion of Mr. Heber, and which is so very rare that it is
not to be found either in the Bodleian Library or the
British Museum, nor, I believe, in any of the public
libraries of Great Britain. I have given the translation
of these Scholia in the order in which they occur in the
original, as I could not have done otherwise without
omitting some part of them, which, on account of their
great importance, I was unwilling to do.
JUPITER
is not said to be, but is, the father of those who
genuinely preserve the proper form of life, such as Her-
cules and the Dioscuri ; but of those who are never at any
time able to convert themselves to a divine nature, he never
is nor is said to be the father. Such therefore, as having