Explained vocabulary

Travelling through moisture — ὑγροπόρευτος

ὑγροπόρευτος

hugroporeutos

Notos's swift leap is ὑγροπόρευτον at LXXXII.1.

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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
travelling through moisture

Meaning

Notos's swift leap is ὑγροπόρευτον at LXXXII.1. Moist air is the medium of movement in this weather hymn. The compound is not a synonym for living in a watery cave, the more local dwelling image expressed by ὑγρόπορος elsewhere.

Places to read

  1. Hymn LXXXII · Line 1Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ὑγροπόρευτον

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. LXXXII.1

Lexical references

LSJ ὑγροπόρευτος (n106258)