From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- at one time; sometimes
Meaning
The adverb helps express alternation in Apollo’s musical ordering, Adonis’s dwelling below and Meilinoe’s visible or dark appearances (XXXIV.18; LVI.10; LXXI.8). It works with particles and other time-words in the surrounding clause. Detached from that pattern, a bare “once” can misleadingly turn recurring contrast into one past event.
Places to read
- Hymn XXXIV · Line 18Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ποτὲ
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. XXXIV.18; LVI.10; LXXI.8