Citate Korybas Hekate

Nonnus, Dionysiaca 13. 400 ff :

"Zerynthos [on the island of Samothrake] of the unresting Korybantes, the foundation of
renowned Perseis [Hekate], where the rocks are thronged with torchbearing mystics of the Maid."
Lycophron, Alexandra 77 ff (trans. Mair) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.) :
"Saos [Samothrake], the strong foundation of the Kyrbantes (Cyrbantes)."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. 48. 2 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) :
"Iasion [a Samothrakian prince] married Kybele (Cybele) [Demeter of Samothrake] and begat
Korybas (Corybas). And after Iasion had been removed into the circle of the gods, Dardanos and
Kybele and Korybas conveyed to Asia the sacred rites of the Mother of the Gods and removed
with them to Phrygia . . . and Korybas gave the name of Korybantes (Corybantes) to all who, in
celebrating the rites of his mother, acted like men possessed."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. 64. 3 :
"But some historians, and Ephoros is one of them, record that the Daktyloi Idaioi (Idaean Dactys)
[i.e. the Kabeiroi or Korybantes] were in fact born on the Mt Ide (Ida) which is in Phrygia and
passed over to Europe together with Mygdon; and since they were wizards (gonta), they
practised charms and initiatory rites and mysteries, and in the course of a sojourn in Samothrake
(Samothrace) they [as Kabeiroi or Korybantes] amazed the natives of that island not a little by
their skill in such matters. And it was at this time, we are further told, that Orpheus, who was
endowed with an exceptional gift of poesy and song, also became a pupil of theirs, and he was
subsequently the first to introduce initiatory rites and Mysteries to the Greeks."