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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- preserve, keep safe
Meaning
Sleep keeps souls safe while taking away the rehearsal of death (LXXXV.7). The preserving participle qualifies his action within this comparison between sleep and death. By itself it does not state a theory of the soul’s survival after death.
Places to read
- Hymn LXXXV · Line 7Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
διασώζων
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXXXV.7