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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- loving wakefulness
Meaning
The Moon and Silenos receive the wakefulness-loving epithet (IX.7; LIV.5), while Mnemosyne delights in waking as she reminds mortals (LXXVII.6). Vigil and alertness fit all three, but the cognitive setting of memory differs from the other invocations. The compound alone does not identify one particular all-night festival.
Places to read
- Hymn IX · Line 7Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
φιλάγρυπνε; φιλάγρυπνος
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. IX.7; LIV.5; LXXVII.6