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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- bring under a yoke
Meaning
Aphrodite has brought the cosmos under her yoke at LV.4, an image of dominion rather than a literal cart. Demeter's uses are concrete: she first yokes ploughing oxen and harnesses the dragon chariot (XL.8,14). The same verb thus connects control with actual agricultural and vehicular work without making the settings identical.
Places to read
- Hymn XL · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ὑπεζεύξω; ὑποζεύξασα
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. XL.8; XL.14; LV.4