From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- shoot, sprout
Meaning
Persephone manifests her sacred body in green-fruited shoots (XXIX.13). The plural dative gives the visible vegetation through which she appears; it is more concrete than a general epithet meaning fertile. Compare βλάστημα, which can describe a god as another power’s offspring.
Places to read
- Hymn XXIX · Line 13Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
βλαστοῖς
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XXIX.13