From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
Browse this book’s lexicon →- English renderings
- Circle; circuit
Meaning
Ocean washes around the earth’s bounding κύκλος at LXXXIII.3, where the noun marks an encompassing boundary. In the appended Ares hymn, LXXXVIII.6, it is instead a fire-bright circuit that the god wheels. The second belongs to the appended hymn and should not silently determine the physical picture in the Ocean passage.
Places to read
- Hymn LXXXIII · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
κύκλον
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. LXXXIII.3; LXXXVIII.6