Explained vocabulary

Doom — μόρος

μόρος

moros

Leukothea loosens mortals’ pitiable μόρος at sea at LXXIV.6.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
Doom; allotted end

Meaning

Leukothea loosens mortals’ pitiable μόρος at sea at LXXIV.6. The sea setting and the rescue verb make a disastrous death or doom the immediate danger. μοῖρα offers related allotment-language, but this noun’s local force is sharply adverse.

Places to read

  1. Hymn LXXIV · Line 6Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

μόρον

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. LXXIV.6

Lexical references

LSJ n68778 (n68778)