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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- blood
Meaning
Blood belongs to violent delight when Ares rejoices in man-slaying blood and Dionysos in blood beside swords and Maenads. Fortune’s birth “from blood” at LXXII.4 is instead a kinship or origin-image. None automatically specifies a ritual libation. At XLV.3 the apparatus attributes singular αἵματι to Hermann against plural αἵμασι.
Places to read
- Hymn XLV · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
αἵματί; αἵματι; αἵματος
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. XLV.3; LXV.4; LXXII.4