Explained vocabulary

Shining for all — πασιφαής

πασιφαής

pasiphaēs

Helios, Artemis and Adonis receive this radiance-word in different constructions.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
shining for all

Meaning

Helios, Artemis and Adonis receive this radiance-word in different constructions. At LVI.4 it qualifies Adonis as a shining shoot; at XXXVI.3 it accompanies Artemis’s torch-bearing. The apparatus also preserves alternatives: VIII.14 reports παμφαῆ, while LVI.4 reports σὺ πᾶσιν. Those are not additional adopted occurrences of the compound.

Places to read

  1. Hymn VIII · Line 14Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

πασιφαές; πασιφαὲς

Occurrence inventory

3 in total. VIII.14; XXXVI.3; LVI.4

Consequential readings

AV015_04; AV085_06

Lexical references

LSJ πασιφαής (n79921)