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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- poverty
Meaning
Tyche assigns evil poverty to some mortals in contrast with the varied lives she apportions (LXXII.8). The noun names material deprivation. Its unpleasantness is explicit in κακήν; the passage does not present poverty as a chosen discipline or an independent divine person.
Places to read
- Hymn LXXII · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
πενίην
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXXII.8