Explained vocabulary

Sea-resounding — ἁλίδουπος

ἁλίδουπος

halidoupos

Poseidon resounds with the sea amid his heavy-sounding and earth-shaking epithets (XVII.4).

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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
sea-resounding; sounding with the sea

Meaning

Poseidon resounds with the sea amid his heavy-sounding and earth-shaking epithets (XVII.4). At LVIII.7 the sea itself is sea-resounding within Eros’s wide dominion. The same compound can therefore characterize a god by maritime sound or describe the physical medium that produces it.

Places to read

  1. Hymn XVII · Line 4Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ἁλίδουπε; ἁλίδουπος

Occurrence inventory

2 in total. XVII.4; LVIII.7

Lexical references

LSJ ἁλίδουπος (n4169)