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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- be presumptuous
Meaning
The soul becomes presumptuous in its indiscriminate verbal impulse at LXI.7, within the Nemesis hymn's account of restraint. The verb has a critical force here. Thinking beyond an ordinary limit would be too neutral a paraphrase of the conduct being checked.
Places to read
- Hymn LXI · Line 7Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ὑπερφρονέουσα
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXI.7