Explained vocabulary

Seasonal or timely — ὡριάς

ὡριάς

hōrias

Nature's impulse is ὡριάς at X.19.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
seasonal or timely

Meaning

Nature's impulse is ὡριάς at X.19. The poetic feminine formation, related to ὥριος, gives the impulse a timely or seasonal quality. It is not a separate invocation of the Horai merely because the same temporal root is present.

Places to read

  1. Hymn X · Line 19Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ὡριὰς

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. X.19

Lexical references

LSJ ὡριάς (n116330)