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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- crafty, deceptive
Meaning
Crafty deceit accompanies Hermes’s delights (XXVIII.5) and the disguised union in Meilinoe’s birth narrative (LXXI.4). The adjective qualifies ἀπάτη in both places. In the latter, the surrounding syntax and identification of the acting figure are difficult; the adjective alone cannot settle them.
Places to read
- Hymn XXVIII · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
δολίαις
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XXVIII.5; LXXI.4