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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- far-reaching or far-distant
Meaning
Hades is τηλεπόρον at XVIII.9. The epithet gives the realm an image of extensive or distant reach among its other descriptions. It does not measure the length of a journey, and both the spatial remoteness and the sense of stretching far should remain available to a reader of the compound.
Places to read
- Hymn XVIII · Line 9Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
τηλεπόρον
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XVIII.9