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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- blameless; faultless; unblemished
Meaning
Faultlessness describes health, prosperity, Hephaistos as a cosmic constituent, Hermes’s peaceful implement, favourable breezes and Dionysos’s arrival. The referent determines whether moral blamelessness or simply an unspoiled benefit is prominent. At XXX.8 the apparatus gives ἀμεμφής as Lobeck’s restoration against the incomplete reported ἀμεν . . . .; the full adjective there is an adopted reading.
Places to read
- Hymn XV · Line 10Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἀμεμφεῖς; ἀμεμφές; ἀμεμφῆ; ἀμεμφής
Occurrence inventory
7 in total. XV.10; XVII.10; XXVIII.7; XXX.8; LXVI.4; LXVII.7; LXXXI.5