Orphic Fragments — Oracles and Alchemical Sayings

[Paul Ferguson]

"This page translates Kern fragments 332-333 from Otto Kern's Orphicorum fragmenta. Kern places them under Chresmoi, the Oracles. The first fragment preserves testimony to Orpheus as both poet and seer, two prophetic verses, and alleged Orphic tablets on Mount Haemus in Thrace. The second is an alchemical commentary by Agathodaemon on an alleged oracle of Orpheus. Its Greek is exceptionally corrupt; Kern himself declines to correct most of it. The English below renders the readable frame, Diels' extracted oracle, and the intelligible alchemical directions while keeping the damaged state of the witness visible."

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