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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- deep-breasted; spacious in depth
Meaning
Earth and the sea are deep-breasted in the supplied occurrences. The bodily metaphor gives expansive depth to a cosmic domain: Poseidon inhabits the sea’s foundations and Leucothea governs it. It does not require the domain to possess literal animal anatomy.
Places to read
- Hymn XVII · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
βαθύστερν’; βαθυστέρνοιο; βαθυστέρνου
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. XVII.3; XXVI.6; LXXIV.3