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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- labour; achievement
Meaning
The neuter plural ἆθλα names Herakles’s twelve labours traversed from the risings to the settings at XII.12. The sense is arduous achievement, not prizes won in competition. The apparatus reports ἄεθλα, preserving a longer form of the same neuter plural; neither spelling warrants changing it into the masculine ἆθλος.
Places to read
- Hymn XII · Line 12Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἆθλα
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XII.12