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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- cithara; lyre
Meaning
Apollo orders the whole celestial pole with a many-stringed cithara at XXXIV.16. The instrumental dative makes the instrument the means of his ordering. The subsequent seasonal and harmonic language extends its image cosmically, but the line does not specify an actual instrument’s construction or number of strings.
Places to read
- Hymn XXXIV · Line 16Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
κιθάρῃ
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XXXIV.16