Explained vocabulary

Delos — Δῆλος

Δῆλος

Dēlos

Leto’s hymn places Apollo’s birth on rocky Delos and Artemis’s in Ortygia (XXXV.5).

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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
Delos

Meaning

Leto’s hymn places Apollo’s birth on rocky Delos and Artemis’s in Ortygia (XXXV.5). The paired locations matter: the verse does not assign both births to Delos.

Places to read

  1. Hymn XXXV · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

Δήλῳ

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. XXXV.5

Lexical references

LSJ Δῆλος (n24339)