From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- all together; every one
Meaning
The Prayer includes all the Winds, while Prothyraia saves all and Demeter nourishes all mortals (Prayer.38; II.14; XL.7). The compound intensifies comprehensive inclusion. προπάντων is one inflected word here, not the two-word phrase πρὸ πάντων, “before all.”
Places to read
- Prayer to Musaeus · Line 38Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
πρόπαντας; προπάντων
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. Prayer.38; II.14; XL.7