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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- delight or take delight
Meaning
The verb can give pleasure to someone, as Tmolos delights Hipta (XLIX.6), or describe a deity's own enjoyment. Athena delights her mind amid wooded mountains; Poseidon enjoys waves and sea creatures, and Leukothea delights in waves. In the alternative location clauses for Mise and Aphrodite, delight helps identify where the goddess might be, rather than asserting that she occupies every listed place at once.
Places to read
- Hymn XVII · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
τέρπει; τέρπεις; τέρπῃ; τερπομένη; τερπόμενος
Occurrence inventory
8 in total. XVII.8; XXXII.5; XLII.5; XLII.7; XLIX.6; LV.8; LV.22; LXXIV.4