Orphic Fragments

27. Linus, according to Apollodorus's Library Book I, 14, number 22; see also Martial, Epigrams IX 86, 5:
"I was complaining sadly to the Pierian flock The Muses and to Phoebus [Apollo], when Apollo said, 'I myself wept for my Linus'; and he looked back at his sister Calliope, who stood closest to her brother, and said, 'You too have a wound of grief.'" original: "cum grege Pierio maestus Phoeboque querebar, ‘ipse meum flevi’ dixit Apollo ‘Linon’: respexitque suam quae stabat proxima fratri Calliopen et ait ‘tu quoque volnus habes’" See also number 25 a.

Marsyas, son of Oeagrus, a shepherd and one of the Satyrs (he is said to have invented the pipes), according to Hyginus, Fables 165.

Sisters?

28. [Theocritus] Lament for Bion (also attributed to Moschus, III) 17: "Tell it again to the daughters of Oeagrus, tell it to all the Bistonian Nymphs: 'The Dorian Orpheus has perished.'" original: "ἔιπατε δ᾽ αὖ κούραις Οἰαγρῖον, ἔιπατε πᾶσαις Βιστονίαις Νύμφαισιν ‘ἁλώλετο Δώριος Ὀ.’" The "daughters of Oeagrus" are here identified with the local Thracian nymphs.

SONS (for his wives, see numbers 59–67):

29. Musaeus, see numbers 97 and 166 following.
Leos Leos was the mythical founder of the Athenian tribe Leontis; some traditions link him to Orpheus scholia on Demosthenes LIV 7 (II 125 Baiter-Sauppe); Photius; Suidas under the entry Leochareon; Apostolius X 53 (Proverbs II 500); Bekker, Anecdota I 277; Toepffer, Attic Genealogy 40 note 2, who attributes this genealogy to Phanodemus; E. Curtius, Monthly Reports of the Prussian Academy 1878, 78 = Collected Essays I 466; Robert, Heroes I 142 note 2.

Dorion, Dres, and Ortes, see numbers 7–9 and Maass, Orpheus 153.

Rythmonius (?) This name is likely a corruption in the Latin text son of Orpheus and Idomene, a nymph of Mount Ismarus (Lobeck I 326); the manuscript C reads "Idomenae nymphae Maricae"; regarding the Italian nymph Marica, compare Boll, Archive for Religious Science XIII 1910, 567. Mentioned by Nicocrates in [Censorinus], Fragment on Music (Grammatici Latini VI 608, 10 Keil). Against the conjecture of Maass (Orpheus 63 following) that "Rythmonius" should be "Good Rhythm" or Eurythmos, see Rohde, New Heidelberg Yearbooks VI 1895, 2 = Shorter Works II 295. Idomene was a town in Macedonia, see Oberhummer, Real-Encyclopädie IX 905; Br. Keil, Hermes L 1915, 635 note 1.

THE THRACIAN (see also under Oeagrus number 23).

30. Euripides, Alcestis 967, number 82; Hypsipyle, numbers 78 and 79; the anonymous author of Rhesus 944 calls Orpheus the first cousin of the corpse original: "αὐτανέψιος νεκροῦ" (referring to Rhesus the Thracian), number 91; Heraclides Ponticus, number 82; Hermesianax, number 61; Phanocles, number 77; Pseudo-Aristotle, Peplos 48, number 124; Diogenes Laertius, Proem I 4, number 125, and many other Greek and Roman authors; see Gruppe in Roscher's Lexicon III 1078.

Compare also Aenium (?) number 67; regarding Ciconaeo number 197; regarding Odrysa numbers 103, 160, 198. In addition to these, Suidas lists: "Orpheus, king of the Thracians, in whose time the Amazons exacted tribute from the Phrygians." original: "Ὁ. βασιλεὺς Θραικῶν ἐφ’ οὗ αἱ Ἀμαζόνες ἐδασμολόγησαν Φρύγας." Whether the designation of Orpheus's ethnicity appeared in the inscription on the Olympian base of Micythus (number 143) is doubtful, see Kern, Orpheus 15. Regarding Attic vases showing Orpheus as a Thracian, see besides Gruppe, F. Weber, Plato's Notes on...