Explained vocabulary

Dark — ἐρεμνός

ἐρεμνός

eremnos

Hekate is dark in the adopted opening of I.1, beside road and three-way titles.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
dark

Meaning

Hekate is dark in the adopted opening of I.1, beside road and three-way titles. The apparatus reports ἐραννήν, lovely, against the adopted ἐρεμνήν, with an editorial attribution. Darkness therefore belongs to the printed text, not a claim of unanimous transmission.

Places to read

  1. Hymn I · Line 1Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ἐρεμνήν

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. I.1

Consequential readings

AV004_03

Lexical references

LSJ ἐρεμνός (n42299)