From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- prerogative, honour, prize
Meaning
Notos’s rain-bearing activity is a prerogative received from Zeus (LXXXII.4). The final Death petition asks that old age become a good prize among humans (LXXXVII.12). There γέρας is deliberately placed beside γῆρας, old age, making reward and ageing audibly close but lexically distinct.
Places to read
- Hymn LXXXII · Line 4Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
γέρας
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. LXXXII.4; LXXXVII.12