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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- many-formed
Meaning
The adjective ranges across Protogonos, Eubouleus, Korybas, Adonis, Hestia, the avenging goddesses and the Muses. At XXV.3 it instead qualifies the forms involved in Proteus’s transformation of sacred matter. Variety of appearance is shared, but that grammatical difference matters: “many-formed forms” are not automatically named divinities or a doctrine of Platonic Forms.
Places to read
- Hymn XIV · Line 1Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
πολύμορφε; πολύμορφοι; πολυμόρφοις; πολύμορφον; πολυμόρφου
Occurrence inventory
8 in total. XIV.1; XXV.3; XXIX.8; XXXIX.5; LVI.3; LXIX.12; LXXVI.3; LXXXIV.6