Explained vocabulary

Night — εὐφρόνη

εὐφρόνη

euphronē

The Moon delights in quiet and εὐφρόνη at IX.8.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
night

Meaning

The Moon delights in quiet and εὐφρόνη at IX.8. Here the noun names night, further qualified as blessed in its lot, rather than simply a happy state of mind. This distinction is textually important: the apparatus reports εὐφροσύνη and an elided εὐφρόσυν’ against the adopted night-word. The latter fragment cannot be expanded with certainty from the note alone.

Places to read

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

Attested forms

εὐφρόνῃ

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. IX.8

Consequential readings

AV017_02