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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- lovely-minded
Meaning
Adonis is ἱμερόνους at LVI.8, beside the images of Aphrodite’s sweet shoot and a growth of love. The compound draws mind or disposition into the vocabulary of attraction. It should not be flattened into physical beauty alone, though the hymn gives no separate psychology of Adonis.
Places to read
- Hymn LVI · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἱμερόνους
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LVI.8