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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- remover; taker-away
Meaning
The Moirai are removers of necessity from mortals at LIX.18, paired with their role as all-givers. The feminine agent noun names a positive capacity to relieve constraint. It is not a participle of a verb, and its local force complicates a portrait of the Moirai as nothing but irreversible compulsion.
Places to read
- Hymn LIX · Line 18Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἀφαιρέτιδες
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LIX.18