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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Boreas, north wind
Meaning
Boreas is summoned from snowy Thrace as a freezing northern wind (LXXX.2). His name also identifies the hymn’s recipient in its heading. The geographical and wintry language gives this wind an individual character within the sequence of wind hymns.
Places to read
- Hymn LXXX · Line 2Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
Βορέα
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXXX.2
Heading and incense rubric evidence
ΒΟΡΕΟΥ · LXXX.heading. LXXX. ΒΟΡΕΟΥ
Local sense
Boreas as the hymn's divine recipient