Explained vocabulary

Strong, weighty — βριαρός

βριαρός

briaros

The adjective qualifies the scale-pans that the insatiable tilt aside (LXIII.7).

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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
strong, weighty

Meaning

The adjective qualifies the scale-pans that the insatiable tilt aside (LXIII.7). Their strength or weight belongs to an image of distorted justice; it does not state a particular technical weight.

Places to read

  1. Hymn LXIII · Line 7Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

βριαρῇσι

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. LXIII.7

Lexical references

LSJ βριαρός (n20962)