Explained vocabulary

Education — παιδεία

παιδεία

paideia

The Muses generate the blameless excellence of all παιδεία at LXXVI.4.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
Education; cultivated learning

Meaning

The Muses generate the blameless excellence of all παιδεία at LXXVI.4. The noun concerns cultivation and learning, not merely the biological state of childhood. The line places the Muses behind education’s excellence without listing a curriculum.

Places to read

  1. Hymn LXXVI · Line 4Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

παιδείης

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. LXXVI.4

Lexical references

LSJ παιδεία (n76570)