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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- stirring war
Meaning
Rhea, Athena and Ares are each described as war-stirring. The active sense fits the martial force of the addresses, including printed πολεμόκλονος for Athena (XXXII.2). At XXXII.2 the verse prints πολεμόκλονος, while the apparatus’s adopted-side lemma is πολεμοκλόνος (sic), with reported πολεμόκλονε (-οκλόνε). This inspectable accent contrast is not by itself a sufficient reason to reverse the local meaning into “shaken by war.”
Places to read
- Hymn XIV · Line 7Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
πολεμόκλονε; πολεμόκλονος
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. XIV.7; XXXII.2; LXV.4