Explained vocabulary

Of woodland — δρυμόνιος

δρυμόνιος

drymonios

Artemis is woodland-associated beside the keeping of whelps and her Kydonian title (XXXVI.12).

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
of woodland

Meaning

Artemis is woodland-associated beside the keeping of whelps and her Kydonian title (XXXVI.12). The epithet locates her activity in wooded country, complementing the mountain thickets named earlier in the hymn.

Places to read

  1. Hymn XXXVI · Line 12Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

δρυμονίη

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. XXXVI.12

Lexical references

LSJ δρυμόνιος (n28481)