From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
Browse this book’s lexicon →- English renderings
- bright; gleaming
Meaning
Nature is bright at X.10, and Zeus releases a gleaming thunderbolt at XIX.17. The form ἀργῆτα in the latter identifies the adjective’s stem. This is neither idle ἀργός nor a serpent-name homograph. At X.10 the apparatus attributes ἀργής to Abel against ἀρετῇ, so brightness there depends on the adopted reading.
Places to read
- Hymn X · Line 10Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἀργής; ἀργῆτα
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. X.10; XIX.17