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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- left-hand
Meaning
Helios is addressed on the right as begetter of dawn and on the left in relation to night at VIII.4. Εὐώνυμος here supplies the left side of an explicit right–left opposition. The compound’s favourable-looking form must not obscure that spatial sense or turn it into another general epithet meaning kindly.
Places to read
- Hymn VIII · Line 4Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
εὐώνυμε
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. VIII.4