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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- moisture; wetness
Meaning
Ocean is the source of the earth’s spring-flowing moistures at LXXXIII.5. In Boreas’ hymn, damp moisture accompanies rain-born water stirred by the wind. The plural can make moisture concrete as waters or wet exhalations; the immediate water-language is more useful than imposing one physical theory on both scenes.
Places to read
- Hymn LXXX · Line 4Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἰκμάδες; ἰκμάσι
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. LXXX.4; LXXXIII.5