From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
Browse this book’s lexicon →- English renderings
- having many children
Meaning
Demeter is πολύτεκνος in the same line as μουνογενής (XL.16). The descriptions concern different relations: one speaks of the children she produces, the other of her own origin. Reading both as competing counts of her birth would manufacture a contradiction.
Places to read
- Hymn XL · Line 16Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
πολύτεκνε
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XL.16