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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- own sibling; full sibling
Meaning
Sleep is the own or full sibling of Lethe and Death at LXXXV.8. The strengthened kinship term establishes a close relation among the powers without identifying them as one entity. The surrounding hymn can therefore compare sleep with death while still assigning Sleep his own preserving role.
Places to read
- Hymn LXXXV · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
αὐτοκασίγνητος
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXXXV.8