Explained vocabulary

Impure — ἄναγνος

ἄναγνος

anagnos

Korybas is asked to stop the phantasms of a terrified, impure soul (XXXIX.10).

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
impure; unholy

Meaning

Korybas is asked to stop the phantasms of a terrified, impure soul (XXXIX.10). ἀνάγνου agrees with ψυχῆς and gives the soul a condition distinct from its fear. The apparatus, numbering the note as line 11, attributes ἀνάγνου to Wiel against ἀνάγκης; the printed adjective must not be counted as a verse occurrence of “necessity.”

Places to read

  1. Hymn XXXIX · Line 10Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ἀνάγνου

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. XXXIX.10

Consequential readings

AV063_05

Lexical references

LSJ ἄναγνος (n6358)