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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- radiance; glare
Meaning
The thunderbolt flashes exalted radiance at XIX.2; the Eumenides possess a dreadful, flesh-destroying gleam at LXX.7. Brightness is powerful in both, but not automatically comforting or beneficial. “Glare” can make the threatening force of the second context clearer than an invariably serene “light.”
Places to read
- Hymn XIX · Line 2Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
αἴγλην
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XIX.2; LXX.7