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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Path; track
Meaning
Helios drives his track in endless circling motion at VIII.7, while Hermes inhabits Kokytos’s no-return path of necessity at LVII.1. The noun supplies a course in both, but celestial recurrence and underworld irreversibility are sharply different local conditions.
Places to read
- Hymn VIII · Line 7Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
οἶμον
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. VIII.7; LVII.1