Explained vocabulary

Fan — ῥιπίζω

ῥιπίζω

rhipizō

Boreas fans rain-born water with damp moisture at LXXX.4.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
fan; sweep

Meaning

Boreas fans rain-born water with damp moisture at LXXX.4. The participle describes an action of the wind within the dispersal of clouded air. The reported word-order and spelling differences in the apparatus do not establish a different process merely because the same action is arranged differently.

Places to read

  1. Hymn LXXX · Line 4Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ῥιπίζων

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. LXXX.4

Lexical references

LSJ ῥιπίζω (n92517)