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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Pastoral; of pasture
Meaning
Pan, the nymphs, and Silenos’s company receive νόμιος. Grazing land, goatherds, and the pastoral group establish the local meaning. It must be distinguished from νόμιμος, “lawful”: shared letters do not make Pan’s pastoral epithet a claim about statutory obedience.
Places to read
- Hymn XI · Line 1Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
νόμιαι; νόμιον; νομίου
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. XI.1; LI.12; LIV.4