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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- gentle-handed; soothing
Meaning
The adjective makes Health a gentle-handed restorative presence, requested with prosperity and peace or accompanying Persephone’s flourishing. The elided ἠπιόχειρ’ represents an accusative in XXIII.8 and LXXXIV.8 but a dative in XXIX.18; the identical visible string does not imply identical case. The apparatus gives differing endings and, in XXIII, a prosperous-handed alternative. These forms should not be silently forced into one declensional pattern.
Places to read
- Hymn XXIII · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἠπιόχειρ’
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. XXIII.8; XXIX.18; LXXXIV.8