Explained vocabulary

Dione — Διώνη

Διώνη

Diōnē

August Dione is named in the Prayer beside Leto and Theia (Prayer.19).

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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
Dione

Meaning

August Dione is named in the Prayer beside Leto and Theia (Prayer.19). The passage supplies an invocation and an honorific, not a developed genealogy or a separate account of her functions.

Places to read

  1. Prayer to Musaeus · Line 19Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

Διώνην

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. Prayer.19

Lexical references

LSJ Διώνη (n27770)