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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- wearer of a band
Meaning
Hermes is στροφιοῦχος at XXVIII.5, an adopted epithet explained through the wearing of a στρόφιον, a band or fillet. LSJ itself identifies the reading as conjectural for reported τροφιοῦχε. The band is not the herald’s staff, and the alternative should not be given an assured nourishment-sense from its components alone.
Places to read
- Hymn XXVIII · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
στροφιοῦχε
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XXVIII.5
Consequential readings
Lexical references
Further source
LSJ, στροφιοῦχος. Lexical sense or textual qualification checked in the official Perseus LSJ entry; the supplied Greek remains primary.