From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- To know; to recognize
Meaning
The worshippers collectively acknowledge Zeus’s power with ἴσμεν at XIX.19; Moira and Zeus’s mind know everything at LIX.14. The perfect-shaped verb has present meaning. Knowledge is expressed, not an act of currently seeing, even where divine oversight is nearby in the imagery.
Places to read
- Hymn XIX · Line 19Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ἴσμεν; οἶδε
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XIX.19; LIX.14