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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- shake off
Meaning
Eos shakes sweet sleep from the eyelids at LXXVIII.9. The removal is imagined at the body’s surface, giving awakening a tactile movement. The compound and the phrase “from the eyelids” work together, rather than suggesting that she shakes the sleepers themselves apart.
Places to read
- Hymn LXXVIII · Line 9Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἀποσείσῃς
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXXVIII.9