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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- dolphin
Meaning
Dolphins accompany the Nereids’ sea-world as sea-roaming, salt-resounding and dark-gleaming creatures (XXIV.8). Their movement and appearance are developed by the surrounding epithets; the noun itself names the animals.
Places to read
- Hymn XXIV · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
δελφῖνες
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XXIV.8