From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- setting, sunset region
Meaning
Settings mark the endpoint opposed to risings in Herakles’s passage through twelve labours (XII.12). The plural gives his course a broad directional span rather than naming a single evening.
Places to read
- Hymn XII · Line 12Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
δυσμῶν
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XII.12