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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- attendant; minister
Meaning
Dawn is the attendant of life for mortals at LXXVIII.6, alongside her leadership of works. The genitive βίου supplies what she serves. This divine service helps explain the daily activity she enables, without turning the noun into proof of a human cult office in this passage.
Places to read
- Hymn LXXVIII · Line 6Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
πρόπολε
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXXVIII.6