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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- hope, expectation
Meaning
The Moirai approach mortals with light hope (LIX.6), a qualification that can suggest instability as well as lightness. Hope also figures among the boundaries crossed in the chariot image (LIX.9). The noun therefore need not mean assured optimism; expectation better preserves its uncertainty here.
Places to read
- Hymn LIX · Line 6Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἐλπίδι; ἐλπίδος
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. LIX.6; LIX.9