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Latest — νέατος

νέατος

neatos

At XXXII.15 νεάτῃσιν qualifies ὥραις in a prayer about days and nights.

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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
Latest; last

Meaning

At XXXII.15 νεάτῃσιν qualifies ὥραις in a prayer about days and nights. This is the ordinary temporal adjective for latest or last hours, not the musical string-name νεάτη in Apollo’s hymn. The identical-looking stem is resolved by the noun it modifies.

Places to read

  1. Hymn XXXII · Line 15Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

νεάτῃσιν

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. XXXII.15

Lexical references

LSJ n69984 (n69984)