Explained vocabulary

Living in forms other than one’s own — ἀλλοτριομορφοδίαιτος

ἀλλοτριομορφοδίαιτος

allotriomorphodiaitos

Nature is described as dwelling or operating in other forms at X.23, amid images of pervasive flow and circular movement.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
living in forms other than one’s own

Meaning

Nature is described as dwelling or operating in other forms at X.23, amid images of pervasive flow and circular movement. The unusually extended compound makes changeful embodiment explicit. It need not mean that individual human souls pass through successive bodies, a claim the line itself does not make.

Places to read

  1. Hymn X · Line 23Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ἀλλοτριομορφοδίαιτε

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. X.23

Lexical references

LSJ ἀλλοτριομορφοδίαιτος (n4502)