Explained vocabulary

Sea-waved — ἁλικύμων

ἁλικύμων

halikymōn

Palaimon dwells in holy, wave-filled depths at LXXV.2.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
sea-waved; wave-filled

Meaning

Palaimon dwells in holy, wave-filled depths at LXXV.2. The compound qualifies βυθούς, the depths, locating his divine presence within a sea whose surface movement remains audible in the epithet. It is not a separate designation of Palaimon as a wave.

Places to read

  1. Hymn LXXV · Line 2Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ἁλικύμονας

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. LXXV.2

Lexical references

LSJ ἁλικύμων (n4210)