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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- flee or escape
Meaning
Night retreats after sending light below (III.10), whereas no mortal escapes Dawn's elevated appearance (LXXVIII.8). The second statement depends on the negative construction begun in the preceding line. Reading the isolated verb as a positive flight by some unnamed mortal would reverse the force of the passage.
Places to read
- Hymn III · Line 10Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
φεύγει; φεύγεις
Occurrence inventory
2 in total. III.10; LXXVIII.8