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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- To mix; to mingle
Meaning
Apollo mixes winter and summer equally at XXXIV.21, a balancing of contrasting seasons. At LXXI.4 ἐμίγη concerns sexual union in the difficult Meilinoe narrative. Although that aorist has passive morphology, it can express intransitive mingling; the larger uncertainty about deception and the named participants cannot be settled by translating it as a modern passive.
Places to read
- Hymn XXXIV · Line 21Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἐμίγη; μίξας
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XXXIV.21; LXXI.4
Other access forms
μίγνυμι