Explained vocabulary

Voice — αὐδή

αὐδή

audē

The Clouds have a crashing voice in the lightning hymn at XX.3.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
voice; utterance

Meaning

The Clouds have a crashing voice in the lightning hymn at XX.3. The dative places Zeus’s flashing brilliance amid that thunderous sound. “Voice” is an expressive sound-image here, not evidence that the Clouds speak articulated human words.

Places to read

  1. Hymn XX · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

αὐδῇ

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. XX.3

Lexical references

LSJ αὐδή (n17336)