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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- blessed with offspring
Meaning
Demeter is directly addressed as εὔτεκνε at XL.13 amid child-loving and nursing epithets. At XXXV.3 the adjective instead qualifies Leto’s birth-pang, understood through its fruitful result. The same praise can therefore belong to a parent or to the birth that brings fine offspring; it need not mean that labour itself is painless.
Places to read
- Hymn XXXV · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
εὔτεκνε; εὔτεκνον
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XXXV.3; XL.13