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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- beget, produce
Meaning
Aphrodite generates all things within her comprehensive rule (LV.5). The Muses beget the blameless excellence of education (LXXVI.4), applying the verb to a cultivated quality. The productive metaphor matters in both passages, but the latter is not a physical birth narrative.
Places to read
- Hymn LV · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
γεννᾷς; γεννῶσαι
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. LV.5; LXXVI.4