§10.3.14καὶ Σειληνὸν καὶ Μαρσύαν καὶ Ὄλυμπον συνάγοντες εἰς ἓν καὶ εὑρετὰς αὐλῶν ἱστοροῦντες πάλιν καὶ οὕτως τὰ Διονυσιακὰ καὶ Φρύγια εἰς ἓν συμφέρουσι, τήν τε Ἴδην καὶ τὸν Ὄλυμπον συγκεχυμένως πολλάκις ὡς τὸ αὐτὸ ὄρος κτυποῦσιν.
And bringing Silenus and Marsyas and Olympus together into one, and recording them as inventors of flutes, they again and in this way bring the Dionysiac and the Phrygian rites together into one, and they often confuse Ida and Olympus, making them sound like the same mountain.
εἰσὶ μὲν οὖν λόφοι τέτταρες Ὄλυμποι καλούμενοι τῆς Ἴδης κατὰ τὴν Ἀντανδρίαν, ἔστι δὲ καὶ ὁ Μυσὸς Ὄλυμπος, ὅμορος μὲν οὐχ ὁ αὐτὸς δὲ τῇ Ἴδῃ.
Now there are four hills called Olympus belonging to Ida near Antandria, and there is also the Mysian Olympus, which borders on, but is not the same as, Ida.
ὁ δʼ οὖν Σοφοκλῆς ποιήσας τὸν Μενέλαον ἐκ τῆς Τροίας ἀπαίρειν σπεύδοντα ἐν τῇ Πολυξένῃ, τὸν δʼ Ἀγαμέμνονα μικρὸν ὑπολειφθῆναι βουλόμενον τοῦ ἐξιλάσασθαι τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν χάριν, εἰσάγει λέγοντα τὸν Μενέλαον
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σὺ δʼ αὖθι μίμνων που κατʼ Ἰδαίαν χθόνα
ποίμνας Ὀλύμπου συναγαγὼν θυηπόλει. " §10.3.15τῷ δʼ αὐλῷ καὶ κτύπῳ κροτάλων τε καὶ κυμβάλων καὶ τυμπάνων καὶ ταῖς ἐπιβοήσεσι καὶ εὐασμοῖς καὶ ποδοκρουστίαις οἰκεῖα ἐξεύροντο καί τινα τῶν ὀνομάτων, ἃ τοὺς προπόλους καὶ χορευτὰς καὶ θεραπευτὰς τῶν ἱερῶν ἐκάλουν, Καβείρους καὶ Κορύβαντας καὶ Πᾶνας καὶ Σατύρους καὶ Τιτύρους καὶ τὸν θεὸν Βάκχον καὶ τὴν Ῥέαν Κυβέλην καὶ Κυβήβην καὶ Δινδυμήνην κατὰ τοὺς τόπους αὐτούς.
In any case, Sophocles, having represented Menelaus in the Polyxena as hastening to depart from Troy, and Agamemnon as wishing to be left behind a little for the sake of propitiating Athena, introduces Menelaus as saying: "But you, staying behind somewhere in the Idaean land, gather the flocks of Olympus and offer sacrifice." And with the flute and the noise of castanets, cymbals, and drums, and with shouts, cries of evoe, and stamping of feet, they invented appropriate words, and also some of the names by which they called the attendants, dancers, and ministers of the sacred rites: Cabeiri, Corybantes, Panes, Satyrs, and Tityri, and the god Bacchus, and Rhea Cybele and Cybebe and Dindymene, according to their very locations.
καὶ ὁ Σαβάζιος δὲ τῶν Φρυγιακῶν ἐστι καὶ τρόπον τινὰ τῆς μητρὸς τὸ παιδίον παραδοὺς τὰ τοῦ Διονύσου καὶ αὐτός.
And Sabazius also belongs to the Phrygian rites, being in a way the child of the Mother, and he himself delivers the rites of Dionysus.
§10.3.16τούτοις δʼ ἔοικε καὶ τὰ παρὰ τοῖς Θρᾳξὶ τά τε Κοτύττια καὶ τὰ Βενδίδεια, παρʼ οἷς καὶ τὰ Ὀρφικὰ τὴν καταρχὴν ἔσχε.
And similar to these are also the rites among the Thracians, both the Cotyttia and the Bendideia, among whom also the Orphic rites had their origin.
τῆς μὲν οὖν Κότυος τῆς ἐν τοῖς Ἠδωνοῖς Αἰσχύλος μέμνηται καὶ τῶν περὶ αὐτὴν ὀργάνων.
Now Aeschylus mentions Cotys who is worshipped among the Edonians, and the instruments around her.
εἰπὼν γάρ
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σεμνὰ Κότυς ἐν τοῖς Ἠδωνοῖς
ὄρεια δʼ ὄργανʼ ἔχοντες,
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τοὺς περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον εὐθέως ἐπιφέρει
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ὁ μὲν ἐν χερσὶν
βόμβυκας ἔχων, τόρνου κάματον,
δακτυλόδικτον πίμπλησι μέλος,
μανίας ἐπαγωγὸν ὁμοκλάν· ὁ δὲ χαλκοδέτοις κοτύλαις ὀτοβεῖ. "
καὶ πάλιν
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ψαλμὸς δʼ ἀλαλάζει· ταυρόφθογγοι δʼ ὑπομυκῶνται
ποθὲν ἐξ ἀφανοῦς φοβεροὶ μῖμοι,
τυπάνου δʼ εἰκὼν ὥσθʼ ὑπογαίου
βροντῆς φέρεται βαρυταρβής. "
ταῦτα γὰρ ἔοικε τοῖς Φρυγίοις· καὶ οὐκ ἀπεικός γε, ὥσπερ αὐτοὶ οἱ Φρύγες Θρᾳκῶν ἄποικοί εἰσιν, οὕτω καὶ τὰ ἱερὰ ἐκεῖθεν μετενηνέχθαι.
For having said: "Revered Cotys among the Edonians, and those who have the mountain instruments," he immediately brings in the attendants of Dionysus: "One, holding in his hands the bombyces, the labor of the lathe, fills out the finger-pointing melody, a call that induces madness; another makes a din with bronze-bound cymbals." And again: "The plucking of strings raises a shout; and bull-voiced, frightening mimics bellow from some unseen place, and a semblance of a drum, like underground thunder, is borne along, deeply terrifying." For these things resemble the Phrygian rites; and indeed it is not unlikely that, just as the Phrygians themselves are colonists of the Thracians, so also the sacred rites were transferred from there.
καὶ τὸν Διόνυσον δὲ καὶ τὸν Ἠδωνὸν Λυκοῦργον συνάγοντες εἰς ἓν τὴν ὁμοιοτροπίαν τῶν ἱερῶν αἰνίττονται.
And by bringing Dionysus and the Edonian Lycurgus together into one, they hint at the similarity of their sacred rites.
§10.3.17ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ μέλους καὶ τοῦ ῥυθμοῦ καὶ τῶν ὀργάνων καὶ ἡ μουσικὴ πᾶσα Θρᾳκία καὶ Ἀσιᾶτις νενόμισται.
And from the melody and the rhythm and the instruments, all music has been considered Thracian and Asiatic.
δῆλον δʼ ἔκ τε τῶν τόπων ἐν οἷς αἱ Μοῦσαι τετίμηνται· Πιερία γὰρ καὶ Ὄλυμπος καὶ Πίμπλα καὶ Λείβηθρον τὸ παλαιὸν ἦν Θρᾴκια χωρία καὶ ὄρη, νῦν δὲ ἔχουσι Μακεδόνες· τόν τε Ἑλικῶνα καθιέρωσαν ταῖς Μούσαις Θρᾷκες οἱ τὴν Βοιωτίαν ἐποικήσαντες, οἵπερ καὶ τὸ τῶν Λειβηθριάδων νυμφῶν ἄντρον καθιέρωσαν.
And this is clear from the places in which the Muses are honored; for Pieria, Olympus, Pimpla, and Leibethrum were in ancient times Thracian places and mountains, though now the Macedonians hold them; and the Thracians who settled in Boeotia consecrated Helicon to the Muses, the very ones who also consecrated the cave of the Leibethrian Nymphs.
οἵ τʼ ἐπιμεληθέντες τῆς ἀρχαίας μουσικῆς Θρᾷκες λέγονται, Ὀρφεύς τε καὶ Μουσαῖος καὶ Θάμυρις, καὶ τῷ Εὐμόλπῳ δὲ τοὔνομα ἐνθένδε, καὶ οἱ τῷ Διονύσῳ τὴν Ἀσίαν ὅλην καθιερώσαντες μέχρι τῆς Ἰνδικῆς ἐκεῖθεν καὶ τὴν πολλὴν μουσικὴν μεταφέρουσι· καὶ ὁ μέν τίς φησιν
κιθάραν Ἀσιᾶτιν ῥάσσων,
ὁ δὲ τοὺς αὐλοὺς Βερεκυντίους καλεῖ καὶ Φρυγίους· καὶ τῶν ὀργάνων ἔνια βαρβάρως ὠνόμασται νάβλας καὶ σαμβύκη καὶ βάρβιτος καὶ μαγάδις καὶ ἄλλα πλείω.
And those who cultivated ancient music are said to be Thracians: Orpheus, Musaeus, and Thamyris; and Eumolpus also got his name from there; and those who consecrated the whole of Asia as far as India to Dionysus also transfer the greater part of music from there; and one poet says: "striking the Asiatic cithara," while another calls the flutes Berecyntian and Phrygian; and some of the instruments are named in a barbarian tongue: nablas, sambyce, barbiton, magadis, and many others.