From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
Browse this book’s lexicon →- English renderings
- of many dooms
Meaning
The Eumenides are πολύποτμοι among nocturnal and frightening descriptions (LXX.9). The compound associates them with a multiplicity of fates or dooms. Its precise relation is less explicit: the line does not say simply that they possess, allot or inflict every fate.
Places to read
- Hymn LXX · Line 9Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
πολύποτμοι
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXX.9