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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- at Pytho
Meaning
Πυθοῖ locates Themis’s former rule at Pytho, beside the phrase “on the Pythian ground” (LXXIX.5). It is a conventional locative place-form. Reading it as a separate divine name would lose the location supplied by the sentence.
Places to read
- Hymn LXXIX · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
Πυθοῖ
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXXIX.5