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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- summer
Meaning
Apollo mixes winter and summer and distinguishes them through high and low musical terms at XXXIV.21–22. The seasonal contrast is explicit, but the hymn’s musical language should not be flattened into modern concert pitch. Summer is one pole in an ordered relation with winter, not an isolated deity introduced by this noun.
Places to read
- Hymn XXXIV · Line 21Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
θέρεός; θέρος
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XXXIV.21; XXXIV.22