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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- messenger; herald
Meaning
Hermes is explicitly Zeus’s messenger at XXVIII.1; Dream is the messenger of things to come at LXXXVI.2. The noun thus covers personal service and the disclosure of future events. Prayer.22 invokes the messenger of the heavenly gods without supplying a personal name there, so the noun alone should not be translated “Hermes.”
Places to read
- Prayer to Musaeus · Line 22Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἄγγελε; ἄγγελον
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. Prayer.22; XXVIII.1; LXXXVI.2