Explained vocabulary

Of every colour — παντόχροος

παντόχροος

pantokhroos

The Horai are many-coloured amid varied scents and flower-associated breezes (XLIII.4).

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
of every colour

Meaning

The Horai are many-coloured amid varied scents and flower-associated breezes (XLIII.4). Colour is one part of a deliberately multisensory description. The adjective’s plural ending belongs to the goddesses, not to the breezes surrounding them.

Places to read

  1. Hymn XLIII · Line 4Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

παντόχροοι

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. XLIII.4

Lexical references

LSJ παντόχροος (n77690)