Explained vocabulary

Circular — κυκλοτερής

κυκλοτερής

kykloterēs

Nature is κυκλοτερής at X.23, between language of flowing and living in other forms.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
Circular; rounded

Meaning

Nature is κυκλοτερής at X.23, between language of flowing and living in other forms. Rounded shape is one description within a deliberately mobile series; it does not by itself make the whole hymn a geometrical account of the cosmos.

Places to read

  1. Hymn X · Line 23Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

κυκλοτερής

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. X.23

Lexical references

LSJ n60650 (n60650)