Explained vocabulary

Hunting — κυνηγεσία

κυνηγεσία

kynēgesia

Adonis rejoices in κυνηγεσίαις at LVI.7.

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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
Hunting

Meaning

Adonis rejoices in κυνηγεσίαις at LVI.7. The dative names the activity that delights him, placing hunting beside descriptions of his appearance rather than narrating a particular fatal hunt. The printed word is attributed to Dinner; the apparatus reports κυναγεσίοις.

Places to read

  1. Hymn LVI · Line 7Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

κυνηγεσίαις

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. LVI.7

Consequential readings

AV086_01

Lexical references

LSJ n60839 (n60839)