Explained vocabulary

Unharming — ἀπήμων

ἀπήμων

apēmōn

The appended Ares prayer asks to remain within Peace’s unharming ordinances at LXXXVIII.16.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
unharming; free from injury

Meaning

The appended Ares prayer asks to remain within Peace’s unharming ordinances at LXXXVIII.16. The adjective qualifies the ordering rules of peace, not Ares’s prior martial conduct. It gives the requested condition a concrete contrast with the violence and impulses the prayer seeks to restrain.

Places to read

  1. Hymn LXXXVIII · Line 16Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ἀπήμοσι

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. LXXXVIII.16

Lexical references

LSJ ἀπήμων (n12069)