Explained vocabulary

Celebrated in yearly festivals — ἀμφιέτηρος

ἀμφιέτηρος

amphietēros

Dionysos receives this epithet among mountain-roaming, fawnskin and Eros descriptions at LII.10.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
celebrated in yearly festivals; of the year’s circuit

Meaning

Dionysos receives this epithet among mountain-roaming, fawnskin and Eros descriptions at LII.10. LSJ gives celebrated in yearly festivals and cites this locus, while the edition renders it of the year’s circuit. The annual interpretation is therefore a real lexical possibility. Nearby trieteric language should be compared with it, not silently harmonized or used to infer a precisely dated calendar.

Places to read

  1. Hymn LII · Line 10Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ἀμφιέτηρε

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. LII.10

Lexical references

LSJ ἀμφιέτηρος (n5828)