Explained vocabulary

Unshaken — ἀστυφέλικτος

ἀστυφέλικτος

astypheliktos

Herakles is unshaken beside immortal, much-experienced and boundless descriptions at XII.13.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
unshaken; immovable

Meaning

Herakles is unshaken beside immortal, much-experienced and boundless descriptions at XII.13. The adjective concerns resistance to being shaken or displaced. Its initial letters should not tempt a reading about a city, since no city-destroying or civic meaning fits this form and context.

Places to read

  1. Hymn XII · Line 13Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ἀστυφέλικτος

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. XII.13

Lexical references

LSJ ἀστυφέλικτος (n16717)