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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- unbreakable; unruptured
Meaning
Ares, the thunderbolt and Kronos’s bonds are unbreakable. Material resistance and divine power overlap, but the word must be distinguished from ἄρρητος, “unutterable.” At XIII.4 that distinction is textual: the apparatus attributes printed ἀρρήκτους to Lennep against ἀρρήτους, changing the bonds from unspeakable to unbreakable.
Places to read
- Hymn XIII · Line 4Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
Ἄρρηκτ’; ἄρρηκτον; ἀρρήκτους
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. XIII.4; XIX.11; LXV.1