Explained vocabulary

Utter — αὐδάω

αὐδάω

audaō

In Prayer.39 the speaker voices an invocation of the Thunders and the parts of the four-pillared cosmos.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
utter; proclaim; invoke

Meaning

In Prayer.39 the speaker voices an invocation of the Thunders and the parts of the four-pillared cosmos. αὐδῶ belongs to the act of reciting the divine catalogue. The apparatus attributes it to Portus against αὐλῶν; the adopted first-person verb should not be treated as a musical-instrument word.

Places to read

  1. Prayer to Musaeus · Line 39Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

αὐδῶ

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. Prayer.39

Consequential readings

AV003_01

Lexical references

LSJ αὐδάω (n17335)