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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Releasing cares
Meaning
Night and Sleep release cares in close conjunction with rest from toil; Hermes and Artemis receive the same epithet within broader sequences of benefits. It promises relief from anxiety without specifying one method shared by all four. At III.6 the apparatus reports ληθομέριμν’ against the printed λυσιμέριμν’, contrasting forgetting cares with releasing them.
Places to read
- Hymn III · Line 6Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
λυσιμέριμν’; λυσιμέριμνε
Occurrence inventory
4 in total. III.6; XXVIII.6; XXXVI.5; LXXXV.5