From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- successful childbirth; easy birth
Meaning
Prothyraia shares in birth-pangs and rejoices in εὐτοκίαι at II.8. The plural refers to successful or easy deliveries as occasions of divine joy. The contrast is with the painful labour she accompanies, not with a supposedly impure kind of birth.
Places to read
- Hymn II · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
εὐτοκίῃσι
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. II.8