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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- To be a concern; to matter
Meaning
Human purposes are always Nemesis’s concern at LXI.6, and beginning and end are Apollo’s concern at XXXIV.15. The things attended to are grammatically subjects of μέλω, while the divine recipient appears in the dative. At LXI.6 the apparatus reports πέλει against μέλει, a different verb that would change how the relation is expressed.
Places to read
- Hymn XXXIV · Line 15Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
μέλει; μέλουσα
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XXXIV.15; LXI.6