From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Belonging to childbirth
Meaning
λοχίαις qualifies Earth’s pangs at XXVI.5. It makes the agricultural carrying of manifold fruit explicitly resemble labour in childbed; the adjective describes the pains, not a separate goddess named Lochia.
Places to read
- Hymn XXVI · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
λοχίαις
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XXVI.5