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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- piper or whistler
Meaning
Helios is addressed as συρικτά at VIII.11. The agent noun presents him as making a piping or whistling sound; it does not itself name a particular instrument. The nearby musical imagery makes this more than a description of bare motion through the sky.
Places to read
- Hymn VIII · Line 11Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
συρικτά
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. VIII.11