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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- loving children
Meaning
Prothyraia loves children at II.3, within the hymn's sustained concern for childbirth and its dangers. That setting supplies the local sense clearly. Other erotic associations of the compound in Greek should not be imported into this protective invocation.
Places to read
- Hymn II · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
φιλόπαις
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. II.3