From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- of Bacchic dancing; leading Bacchic dance
Meaning
Dionysos is βακχέχορος in the kinship passages of chthonic Hermes and Palaimon (LVII.3; LXXV.1). The compound brings dance into the god’s identity rather than merely repeating his name. At LVII.3 the apparatus attributes the compound form to Casaubonus against βάκχε χοροῖο, a different division of the sequence.
Places to read
- Hymn LVII · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
βακχεχόροιο
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. LVII.3; LXXV.1