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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- tear apart, rend
Meaning
Zeus tears the tunic or heavenly covering in XIX.16–17 and then releases the shining thunderbolt. The nominative participle διαρρήξας continues the agency of the addressed god; the bolt is the object released, not the agent doing the tearing. Clothing language makes the atmospheric covering something that can be violently opened.
Places to read
- Hymn XIX · Line 16Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
διαρρήξας
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XIX.16