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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Darkly gleaming
Meaning
Night at III.3 and dolphins at XXIV.8 receive the same compound. For Night it stands beside “star-shining”; for dolphins it describes moving marine bodies. The shared darkness-and-lustre imagery accommodates both settings without identifying the beings with one another. The apparatus reports κυαναυγές against the printed κυαναυγής in the address to Night.
Places to read
- Hymn III · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
κυαναυγεῖς; κυαναυγής
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. III.3; XXIV.8