Explained vocabulary

Even balance — ἰσορροπία

ἰσορροπία

isorropia

The speaker asks that a good life move in even balances at LXIII.13, after asking Dikaiosyne to crush baseness.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
even balance; equilibrium

Meaning

The speaker asks that a good life move in even balances at LXIII.13, after asking Dikaiosyne to crush baseness. The plural gives a continuing condition of balanced life, not simply a single weighing event. Compare ἰσότης, the equality she delights in, while retaining the more visibly balance-like imagery of this noun.

Places to read

  1. Hymn LXIII · Line 13Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

ἰσορροπίῃσιν

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. LXIII.13