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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- rest; sleep
Meaning
Dionysus rests in Persephone’s sacred dwellings at LIII.3, within the hymn’s linked images of resting and awakening. The participle places the god in that resting condition. “Sleep” is appropriate, but the verb alone does not state that he has died or define an underworld resurrection doctrine.
Places to read
- Hymn LIII · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἰαύων
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LIII.3