From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- fifty
Meaning
Nereus glories in fifty daughters, and the Nereids’ hymn calls its addressees fifty maidens (XXIII.2; XXIV.3). The repeated numeral links the father’s company with the collective invocation. It supplies a stated count, not a list of fifty individually named figures.
Places to read
- Hymn XXIII · Line 2Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
πεντήκοντα
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XXIII.2; XXIV.3