Explained vocabulary

Blameless — ἀμεμφής

ἀμεμφής

amemphēs

Faultlessness describes health, prosperity, Hephaistos as a cosmic constituent, Hermes’s peaceful implement, favourable breezes and Dionysos’s arrival.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
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

  1. 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

Consequential readings

AV048_04

Lexical references

LSJ ἀμεμφής (n5147)