From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- bud-faced; flower-like in beauty
Meaning
Nereids, Graces, nymphs, and Themis are characterized by a bud-like or flower-like face. The epithet places feminine beauty near flourishing growth without specifying a botanical species. At LV.22 the apparatus reports κυανώπισιν, dark-eyed or dark-faced, against adopted καλυκώπισιν. The contrast is real, but an English gloss should not force a single rigid face-versus-eye division into all -ωπις compounds.
Places to read
- Hymn XXIV · Line 1Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
καλυκώπιδα; καλυκώπιδες; καλυκώπισιν
Occurrence inventory
4 in total. XXIV.1; LV.22; LX.10; LXXIX.2