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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- old, aged man
Meaning
The much-toiling old man in LXVIII.10 cannot come to be without Health. The word brings the hymn’s dependence on health into later life, alongside its other examples of human flourishing.
Places to read
- Hymn LXVIII · Line 10Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
γέρων
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXVIII.10