From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- turned away; causing one to turn away
Meaning
The Eumenides are ἀπόστροφοι beside dreadful eyes, everlasting presence and independent sovereignty at LXX.8. The surrounding fearfulness supports understanding them as powers from whom one turns away, while the edition’s “turned away” preserves a more direct orientation. The compact adjective leaves the exact direction of that aversion less explicit than the English gloss may suggest.
Places to read
- Hymn LXX · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἀπόστροφοι
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXX.8