Explained vocabulary

Battle — φύλοπις

φύλοπις

phylopis

The appended Ares prayer asks not to enter chilling battle at LXXXVIII.15.

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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
battle

Meaning

The appended Ares prayer asks not to enter chilling battle at LXXXVIII.15. The word belongs to the warfare being averted. Despite its initial letters, it is not a phrase about kinship or a tribe and should be distinguished from φῦλον.

Places to read

  1. Hymn LXXXVIII · Line 15Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

φυλόπιδος

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. LXXXVIII.15

Lexical references

LSJ φύλοπις (n112621)