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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- wild; untamed
Meaning
Dionysos is wild beside “unutterable” and “hidden” at XXX.3; Apollo is wild beside “light-bearing” and “lovely” at XXXIV.5. The epithet gives each deity an untamed force while allowing other, more approachable qualities alongside it. Neither occurrence by itself means that the god is cruel or lives only in the countryside.
Places to read
- Hymn XXX · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἄγριε; ἄγριον
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XXX.3; XXXIV.5