Explained vocabulary

Loud-roaring — ἐριβρεμέτης

ἐριβρεμέτης

eribremetēs

Iakchos is loud-roaring in the account of night dances (XLIX.3), and Eubouleus bears the epithet as Persephone’s many-formed child (XXIX.8).

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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
loud-roaring

Meaning

Iakchos is loud-roaring in the account of night dances (XLIX.3), and Eubouleus bears the epithet as Persephone’s many-formed child (XXIX.8). It characterizes a forceful sound associated with the named figures, not a separate thunder-event in each line.

Places to read

  1. Hymn XXIX · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ἐριβρεμέταο; ἐριβρεμέτου

Occurrence inventory

2 in total. XXIX.8; XLIX.3

Consequential readings

AV074_03

Lexical references

LSJ ἐριβρεμέτης (n42404)