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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Hidden; concealed
Meaning
Concealment attaches to different subjects: Aphrodite herself at LV.9, Protogonos beside the paradoxical “all-shining shoot” at VI.5, and Dionysos at XXX.3 and LII.5. In the last passage κρύφιον qualifies his description as Zeus’s shoot. The adjective need not mean invisible in every setting; it marks something withheld from ordinary disclosure without specifying what secret account is intended.
Places to read
- Hymn VI · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
κρυφίη; κρύφιον
Occurrence inventory
4 in total. VI.5; XXX.3; LII.5; LV.9