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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- To shake; to brandish; to spring in movement
Meaning
Herakles brandishes a branch while driving away ruin at XII.15. Dionysos at XLVI.4 “kept shaking” danced steps through the thickets: ποτε and the narrative construction support an imperfect, not a present command to dance. The apparatus reports πάλλει against printed πάλλες, a shift that should not be used to rewrite the adopted address silently.
Places to read
- Hymn XII · Line 15Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
πάλλες; πάλλων
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. XII.15; XLVI.4