From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- half-completing
Meaning
Night is addressed as ἡμιτελές at III.8 beside her terrestrial and heavenly reach. “Half-complete” or “fulfilling a half” suits her place in alternating time, but the verse does not explicitly define the half. The apparatus’s nominative-looking ἡμιτελής is an inflectional alternative, not evidence for a different cosmic function.
Places to read
- Hymn III · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἡμιτελές
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. III.8