From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- much-wandering
Meaning
Tyche and Daimon are described directly as wide-wandering, whereas Antaia’s hymn applies the adjective to the grief in which she searches (XLI.3). The transferred description joins distress to movement without laying out a travel itinerary. The same compound can therefore characterize a divine agent or an experience that accompanies her.
Places to read
- Hymn XLI · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
πολύπλαγκτον; πολυπλάγκτῳ
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. XLI.3; LXXII.5; LXXIII.3