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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- Sharp
Meaning
Zeus’s heavenly shaft is sharp at XIX.12, while the speaker’s provocative force of spirit is sharp in appended Ares, LXXXVIII.14. The adjective transfers an edge-like intensity from physical attack to inner impulse; the latter is something the speaker asks to restrain.
Places to read
- Hymn XIX · Line 12Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ὀξὺ
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XIX.12; LXXXVIII.14