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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- To madden
Meaning
Meilinoe maddens mortals with airy apparitions at LXXI.6. μαίνει is active, with the mortals as its object and the apparitions as the means; it describes her frightening effect on people, not merely her own state of frenzy.
Places to read
- Hymn LXXI · Line 6Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
μαίνει
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXXI.6