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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- creature-nourishing
Meaning
The Sea/Tethys is creature-nourishing at XXII.6 while delighting in ships and moving through watery paths. Marine creatures are foregrounded by her setting. The adjective gives a sustaining relation to animals, not a hunting one; its nominative form in the adopted text also differs from the vocative reported by the apparatus.
Places to read
- Hymn XXII · Line 6Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
θηροτρόφος
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XXII.6