From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- imperishable; unwasting
Meaning
Nature, Zeus, Oceanus and the great saving children of Zeus are imperishable. The image denies wasting away or destruction, while Oceanus’s additional “ever-existing” explicitly brings duration alongside it. The word therefore overlaps with immortal and everlasting vocabulary without being merely another inflection of either.
Places to read
- Prayer to Musaeus · Line 21Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἄφθιτα; ἄφθιτε; ἄφθιτον
Occurrence inventory
4 in total. Prayer.21; X.5; XV.1; LXXXIII.1