Explained vocabulary

Foot — πούς

πούς

pous

Feet appear in Physis’s silent turning, Helios’s four-stepping dance and the Kouretes’ ringing, dust-raising movement.

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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
foot

Meaning

Feet appear in Physis’s silent turning, Helios’s four-stepping dance and the Kouretes’ ringing, dust-raising movement. The physical term is stable while the actions differ markedly. The epic datives ποσσὶ and ποσσίν belong with the genitive ποδῶν, not with πόσις, “husband.”

Places to read

  1. Hymn VIII · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ποδῶν; ποσσὶ; ποσσὶν

Occurrence inventory

4 in total. VIII.5; X.7; XXXVIII.9; XXXVIII.12

Lexical references

LSJ πούς (n86108)