From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- nurse or foster-parent
Meaning
Silenos is addressed as Bacchos's nurse at LIV.1; his identity makes foster-father a natural English rendering in this passage. The lexical form τιθηνός is not obligatorily masculine in every Greek use, however. Its reported appearance against Nature's τιθήνη at X.18 therefore does not compel a change from female nurse to male nurse.
Places to read
- Hymn LIV · Line 1Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
τιθηνέ
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LIV.1