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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Care; anxious concern
Meaning
At LIX.9 μεριμνῶν is one of the genitives attached to the language of bounds through which opinion’s chariot moves. It belongs with justice and hope in a compressed account of human life under fate. The noun names concerns or anxieties, not the Moirai themselves.
Places to read
- Hymn LIX · Line 9Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
μεριμνῶν
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LIX.9