From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Goad; overpowering frenzy
Meaning
Pan is asked to send Panic οἶστρος away, and Meilinoe to expel the soul’s οἶστρος to the earth’s ends. The Eumenides loosen limbs with it at LXX.9. The goad-image conveys coercive, frightening excitation; in these passages the response is relief from its power rather than a celebration of every kind of frenzy.
Places to read
- Hymn XI · Line 23Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
οἶστρον; οἴστρῳ
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. XI.23; LXX.9; LXXI.11