From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- star-shining; radiant with stars
Meaning
Night and Aither shine with stars in III.3 and V.5. The compound gives a source or character to their brilliance: darkness can be star-lit, while the upper luminous expanse supports the same image. At III.3 the apparatus attributes the printed vocative ἀστεροφεγγές to Abel against ἀστεροφεγγής.
Places to read
- Hymn III · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἀστεροφεγγές
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. III.3; V.5