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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- health-giving
Meaning
The Nymphs pour health-giving water at LI.18. The adjective presents the water as beneficial within the prayer's own idiom. It is a quality attributed in the poem, not a modern medical assurance about a particular water source.
Places to read
- Hymn LI · Line 18Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ὑγιεινὸν
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LI.18