From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- master or ruler
Meaning
The appended Ares is called master over adversaries at LXXXVIII.5. The praise context makes commanding superiority the immediate sense. Reading only the modern pejorative political meaning of tyrant would obscure how the title works in this invocation.
Places to read
- Hymn LXXXVIII · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
τύραννε
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXXXVIII.5