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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- insatiably; greedily
Meaning
In Justice’s hymn people lean against heavy scales insatiably at LXIII.7. The adverb attaches greed to a distorted act of weighing, opposing the goddess’s equality and balance. Its bodily image makes excessive acquisition visible rather than merely labelling a private appetite.
Places to read
- Hymn LXIII · Line 7Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἀπλήστως
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXIII.7