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title: Testimony
title_greek: Μαρτυρία
author: Cercops the Orphic
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eul_aid: bay
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period: Archaic
dialect: Epic (Homeric)
domain: Philosophy
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---

# Testimony

*Μαρτυρία*

**Author:** Cercops the Orphic

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CIC. de n. deor. I 38, 107 Orpheum poetam docet Aristoteles [ fr. 7] numquam fuisse et hoc Orphicum carmen Pythagorei ferunt cuiusdam fuisse Cercopis. CLEM. Str. I 131 (II 81, 11 Stähl.) Ἐπιγένης δὲ ἐν τοῖς Περὶ τῆς εἰς Ὁρφέα 〈ἀναφερομένησ〉 ποιήσεως Κέρκωπος εἶναι λέγει τοῦ Πυθαγορείου τὴν Εἰς Ἅιδου κατάβασιν καὶ τὸν Ἱερὸν λόγον τὸν δὲ Πέπλον καὶ τὰ Φυσικὰ Βροντίνου [c. 17]. SUID. S. V. Ὀρφεύς. Ἱεροὺς λόγους ἐν ῥαψωιδίαις κδ . λέγονται δὲ εἶναι Θεογνήτου τοῦ Θεσσαλοῦ, οἱ δὲ Κέρκωπος τοῦ Πυθαγορείου. DIOG. II 46 [S. I 103, 10ff.] καὶ Κέρκωψ Ἡσιόδωι ζῶντι. [ἐφιλονίκει].

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