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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- twelve
Meaning
Twelve specifies the labours traversed by Herakles from rising to setting (XII.12). The numeral structures the heroic course as printed; it does not by itself authorize a symbolic correspondence between each labour and another set of twelve.
Places to read
- Hymn XII · Line 12Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
δώδεκ’
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XII.12