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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- approach; visitation
Meaning
The plural at LXXI.9 describes Melinoe’s encounters or visitations during gloomy night. With the adjoining ἀνταίαις and the hymn’s apparitions, “approach” acquires an alarming force. The noun itself does not specify whether a visitation occurs in sleep, in a waking vision, or in a performed rite.
Places to read
- Hymn LXXI · Line 9Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἐφόδοισι
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXXI.9