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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- head; summit
Meaning
Heracles wears dawn and black night around his head at XII.11. In LIX.12 the same noun-family names the snowy head or summit of Olympus occupied by the gods. The bodily image extends naturally to the mountain’s top; the suppletive form κρατί should remain linked to κάρα despite its different visible stem.
Places to read
- Hymn XII · Line 11Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
κάρη; κρατὶ
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XII.11; LIX.12