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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Having hidden dwellings
Meaning
The nymphs are κρυψίδομοι at LI.3, immediately before their description as Bakchos’s nurses and as earthly beings. Hidden homes therefore belong to their landscape and manner of dwelling, not to an identified human secret society. The apparatus attributes the printed word to Casaubon and reports κρυψίδρομοι, a different compound involving movement; the translation follows the dwelling-reading.
Places to read
- Hymn LI · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
κρυψίδομοι
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LI.3