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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- horn-bearing
Meaning
The Moon and Dionysus both bear horns in IX.9 and LIII.8. The surrounding figure determines how the epithet is imagined; recurrence alone does not make lunar horns and Dionysian hornedness identical. In IX the apparatus reports a fulfilment-bearing epithet and separately queries a radiance-bearing one. The query is not an adopted reading or another verified manuscript variant.
Places to read
- Hymn IX · Line 9Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
κερασφόρε
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. IX.9; LIII.8