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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- purifying
Meaning
Zeus is addressed as καθάρσιος at XV.8 among earth-shaking, growth-producing, and all-shaking epithets. The adjective gives him a purifying function rather than merely describing him as already pure. The hymn does not specify a particular pollution, material cleansing agent, or ceremony of purification.
Places to read
- Hymn XV · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
καθάρσιε
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XV.8