Explained vocabulary

Baths — λουτρόν

λουτρόν

loutron

The birth-giving λουτρά of sacred Egypt are one possible location held by Aphrodite at LV.19.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
Baths; bathing waters

Meaning

The birth-giving λουτρά of sacred Egypt are one possible location held by Aphrodite at LV.19. “Waters” usefully keeps the generative setting open; the noun does not by itself establish a particular bath building or describe a prescribed human washing.

Places to read

  1. Hymn LV · Line 19Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

λουτρά

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. LV.19

Lexical references

LSJ n63928 (n63928)