AGE AND ANCESTRY

Christ 1. l. 501 n. 1; compare with number 16. Regarding this catalog of poets before the time of Homer, see A. Kalkmann, Rhenish Museum XLII (1887), 509.

16. Tatian, Against the Greeks 39, page 40, 23 (Schwartz edition) ~ Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies original Latin title: Stromata I 21, 103, 4 (II 67, 2 Staehlin edition) ~ Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel X 11, 23 (I 574 Dindorf edition), who omitted both Bacchus and Orpheus and Musaeus:
The following is a translation of the Greek text regarding mythological timelines
...at the time of Acrisius an ancient King of Argos or the crossing of Pelops from Phrygia and the arrival of Ion in Athens and the second Cecrops legendary early King of Athens, as well as the deeds of Perseus and Dionysus, and Musaeus, the student of Orpheus.
Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies I 21, 107, 4 (II 69, 6 Staehlin edition) ~ Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel X 12, page 500 A (I 580, 27 Dindorf edition):
And if someone says to us that Phemonoe the first priestess of Apollo at Delphi was the first to give oracles to Acrisius, let them know that twenty-seven years after Phemonoe came the followers of Orpheus and Musaeus, and Linus, the teacher of Hercules.
And 108, 1 (II 69, 16 Staehlin edition; Maaß, On the Index of Sibyls I. 58):
And it was not only he (Moses) who was older, but also the Sibyl the legendary prophetess is older than Orpheus. See number 15.

17. Porphyry a Neoplatonist philosopher in Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel X 4, page 470 B (I 542, 2 Dindorf edition):
The Greeks themselves certainly agree that after Orpheus, Linus, and Musaeus—who of all the theologians here meaning 'myth-makers' or 'speakers about the gods' were the most ancient and the first to lead them into the polytheistic error—the seven men among them were admired for their wisdom, whom they indeed named "the Sages."
The same author in the same work, V 4, page 164 b (I 215, 17 Dindorf edition):
It seems to me that those who placed the race of daemons intermediary spirits between gods and humans in the middle between gods and men have solved more and greater difficulties, having discovered a way that our community is gathered and joined together into one; whether this teaching belongs to the Magi associated with Zoroaster, or is Thracian from Orpheus, or Egyptian, or Phrygian, as we infer from the initiations in both places, where we see many mortal and mournful elements mixed into the celebrated rites and performed ceremonies. See also number 99 a.

18. Eusebius, Chronicle for the year 749 (II 46 Schoene edition; Jerome 56, 3 Helm edition):
The Thracian [Orpheus] was becoming known; his student was Musaeus, the son of Eumolpus. Linus, the teacher of Hercules, was becoming known.
In the preface of Jerome II 7 (Schoene edition):
Furthermore, Liber another name for Bacchus/Dionysus and the others whom we shall soon bring forward lived two hundred years after Cecrops; namely Linus, Zethus, Amphion, Musaeus, Orpheus, Minos, Perseus, Aesculapius, the twin Castors, and Hercules, with whom Apollo served Admetus.
George Syncellus a 9th-century Byzantine chronicler, Chronography 296, 7 (Dindorf edition):
The Thracian [Orpheus] was becoming known (at the time of Amphion). His student was Musaeus, the son of Eumolpus. See also Lactantius, number 99.