Explained vocabulary

Send up — ἀναπέμπω

ἀναπέμπω

anapempō

Persephone is asked to send crops up from Earth at XXIX.17.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
send up; cause to rise

Meaning

Persephone is asked to send crops up from Earth at XXIX.17. Both the compound and ἀπὸ γαίης make emergence from below explicit. The petition turns her underworld location into a source of nourishment, rather than asking her simply to carry existing fruit elsewhere.

Places to read

  1. Hymn XXIX · Line 17Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ἀνάπεμπ’

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. XXIX.17

Lexical references

LSJ ἀναπέμπω (n7170)