From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- shake, toss
Meaning
Boreas shakes the cosmos’s deep air with wintry breezes (LXXX.1). Notos is himself tossed this way and that on swift wings (LXXXII.2). The active and passive constructions distinguish wind as the agent of agitation from wind pictured in agitated motion.
Places to read
- Hymn LXXX · Line 1Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
δονούμενον; δονῶν
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. LXXX.1; LXXXII.2