Excerpt from The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus: Translated From the Greek
In the 'Advertisement' prefixed to the recent edition of Thomas Taylor's translation of "Iamblichus on the Mysteries of the Egyptians," &c., it was promised that other of Taylor's translations should be reprinted if due encouragement were given to the enterprise. That work having met with a fair measure of success, the publishers, in fulfilment of their promise, have undertaken the present reprint, which they hope will not be less welcome than the former.
"The Mystical Initiations; or, Hymns of Orpheus," as the work was originally called, was first published in 1787. A second edition, "with considerable emendations, alterations, and additions," was published in 1824. Of this second edition the present reprint (being the third issue of the work) is an almost exact facsimile. The original was printed at the Chiswick Press, and is a fine specimen of the work of that excellent establishment.
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