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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- send out, send away
Meaning
Night sends light into the lower regions (III.10). Pan and Meilinoe are instead asked to send frenzy to the limits of earth (XI.23; LXXI.11), where distance expresses removal from the petitioners. The Meilinoe optative ἐκπέμποις is adopted against reported infinitive ἐκπέμπειν.
Places to read
- Hymn III · Line 10Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἐκπέμπεις; ἐκπέμποις; ἐκπέμπων
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. III.10; XI.23; LXXI.11