Explained vocabulary

Loud-resounding, loud-roaring — ἐρίβρομος

ἐρίβρομος

eribromos

Dionysos receives the epithet beside the euhoi cry (XXX.1; XLV.4), but it also describes the thundering Clouds (XXI.3) and the Erinyes (LXIX.1).

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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
loud-resounding, loud-roaring

Meaning

Dionysos receives the epithet beside the euhoi cry (XXX.1; XLV.4), but it also describes the thundering Clouds (XXI.3) and the Erinyes (LXIX.1). Their shared loudness does not make every occurrence exclusively Bacchic or exclusively meteorological.

Places to read

  1. Hymn XXI · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ἐρίβρομε; ἐρίβρομοι; ἐρίβρομον

Occurrence inventory

5 in total. XXI.3; XXX.1; XLV.4; XLVIII.2; LXIX.1

Lexical references

LSJ ἐρίβρομος (n42407)