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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- goatherd
Meaning
Pan rejoices among goatherds, springs and oxherds at XI.8. The dative plural names people in whose company he delights, not goats being grazed. This human pastoral company gives a social setting to the god’s otherwise extensive landscape epithets.
Places to read
- Hymn XI · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
αἰγονόμοις
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XI.8