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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- act impiously; behave without reverence
Meaning
Helios guides the pious but is fierce toward those acting impiously at VIII.8; the Eumenides watch the lives of impious mortals at LXX.4. Both forms are participles of a verb and therefore describe conduct. They should not be silently relabelled as inflections of the separate adjective ἀσεβής.
Places to read
- Hymn VIII · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἀσεβούντων; ἀσεβοῦσι
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. VIII.8; LXX.4