From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- seasonable or fresh in season
Meaning
Spring's flower is ὥριον in Apollo's musical comparison at XXXIV.23. The adjective makes the flower timely and fresh within that seasonal analogy. It is not the unrelated nightly ὤριος or a Doric wind adjective that happens to look similar without accents.
Places to read
- Hymn XXXIV · Line 23Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ὥριον
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XXXIV.23