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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- shaft, bolt
Meaning
The missiles belong to different divine agents. Herakles flashes with primordial shafts (XII.10); Zeus’s lightning bolts enter the account of Semele’s giving birth (XLIV.5). The projectile itself is meant, not the act of throwing.
Places to read
- Hymn XII · Line 10Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
βολίσι; βολίσιν
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XII.10; XLIV.5