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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- giving light to mortals
Meaning
Hephaistos is a light-giver to mortals (LXVI.2), while Apollo's eye (XXXIV.8) and Eos's day (LXXVIII.1) bear the same compound. The beneficiaries are shared, but the immediate bearer can be a deity, an eye or a day. That variation is more informative than treating it as one exclusive divine title.
Places to read
- Hymn XXXIV · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
φαεσίμβροτε; φαεσίμβροτον
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. XXXIV.8; LXVI.2; LXXVIII.1