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Celebrated with many rites — πολυόργιος

πολυόργιος

polyorgios

Protogonos’s much-remembered seed is πολυόργιον at VI.4.

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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
celebrated with many rites

Meaning

Protogonos’s much-remembered seed is πολυόργιον at VI.4. The compound relates the invoked power to numerous ritual observances, with a passive “celebrated with” force supported by LSJ. Its ὄργια are rites, not the modern sexual meaning of “orgies.”

Places to read

  1. Hymn VI · Line 4Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

πολυόργιον

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. VI.4

Lexical references

LSJ πολυόργιος (n85142)

Further source

LSJ, πολυόργιος. Lexical sense or textual qualification checked in the official Perseus LSJ entry; the supplied Greek remains primary.