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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- nourish
Meaning
Phersephone continually nourishes and also kills all at XXIX.16. Nourishment is only half of the paired action: the destructive verb prevents an exclusively benign fertility paraphrase. The same subject holds both capacities in the adopted line.
Places to read
- Hymn XXIX · Line 16Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
φέρβεις
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XXIX.16