Cedalion

[2] The more common story of Cedalion tells of his part in the healing of Orion, who came to Lemnos after he was blinded by Oenopion.

It has also been suggested that the subject may be Hephaestus's fostering; or the instructions given to the blinded Orion by satyrs in Cedalion's service.

One of the surviving lines suggests extreme drunkenness; Burkert reads this fragment as from a chorus of Cabeiri.

[7] Scholars since Wilamowitz, however, support the other traditional interpretation, as "phallos", from a different sense of the same verb: "to marry" (said of the groom).

[8] Wilamowitz speculates[9] that Cedalion is the dwarf in the Louvre relief showing Dionysius in Hephaestus' workplace.

Cedalion standing on the shoulders of Orion; detail from Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun by Nicolas Poussin , 1658, Oil on canvas; 46 7/8 x 72 in. (119.1 x 182.9 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art