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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- know, experience
Meaning
Nothing can know the nature of life apart from Hera (XVI.5). Knowing here is inseparable from participation in life, rather than a claim that beings learn a definition or receive formal instruction.
Places to read
- Hymn XVI · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἔγνω
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XVI.5