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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- ray; radiance; flash
Meaning
At XIX.15 faces glitter in rays or flashes; the plural πρόσωπ’ is not identified as Zeus’s face. Hephaistos shines with fiery rays at LXVI.2, while a fire-bearing flash shakes Earth at Bacchos’s emergence and surrounds Semele’s birth-pangs. These violent flashes differ from a general glow. At LXVI.2 the apparatus contrasts αὐγαῖς with αὔραις, rays with breezes.
Places to read
- Hymn XIX · Line 15Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
αὐγαῖς; αὐγὴ; αὐγῇ
Occurrence inventory
4 in total. XIX.15; XLIV.4; XLVII.4; LXVI.2