From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- unsubdued; untamed
Meaning
Ouranos, Nature, Herakles and Ares are addressed as powers that cannot be subdued. Nature’s “all-subduing, unsubdued” sequence at X.3 makes the asymmetry especially clear: she masters others without being mastered. The epithet states resistance to domination, not necessarily immunity from every conceivable change.
Places to read
- Hymn IV · Line 7Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἀδάμαστε
Occurrence inventory
4 in total. IV.7; X.3; XII.2; LXV.2