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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- ordinance-bearing
Meaning
Dionysus is explicitly the ordinance-bearer at XLII.1, together with the title narthex-bearer. The accusative masculine epithet agrees with Διόνυσον. A reader familiar with a similar title of Demeter must not transfer this occurrence to her: the local invocation names its recipient unambiguously.
Places to read
- Hymn XLII · Line 1Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
Θεσμοφόρον
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XLII.1