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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- nurse or nourisher
Meaning
The noun can name male or female nourishers and even a place. Hera nourishes winds, the Nymphs nurse Bacchos, Hippa and Silenos each receive the nursing title, and Cyprus is Aphrodite's nurturing place (LV.24). Nature, the Mother and Adonis are praised as nourishers of all in their own hymns. These shared roles do not erase the different agents; vocative τροφέ is from τροφός, not from τροφεύς.
Places to read
- Hymn X · Line 18Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
τροφέ; τροφὲ; τροφοί; τροφόν; τροφός; τροφὸς; τροφῷ
Occurrence inventory
8 in total. X.18; XVI.4; XXVII.1; XLIX.1; LI.3; LIV.1; LV.24; LVI.3