Explained vocabulary

Exceedingly strong — ἐρισθενής

ἐρισθενής

eristhenēs

The Erinyes are exceedingly mighty beside vengeance and heavy pain (LXIX.7).

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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
exceedingly strong

Meaning

The Erinyes are exceedingly mighty beside vengeance and heavy pain (LXIX.7). Strength belongs to their forceful corrective portrait, not merely to bodily size.

Places to read

  1. Hymn LXIX · Line 7Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ἐρισθενέες

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. LXIX.7

Lexical references

LSJ ἐρισθενής (n42527)