From the book
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- fly; range on the wing
Meaning
The verb describes creatures flying in Proteus’s world, and the ranging movement of the Moirai and Erinyes. The perfect forms πεπότησθε and πεποτημέναι can express an ongoing winged condition. They belong to flight, not to ποθέω, “long for,” whose participles look deceptively similar.
Places to read
- Hymn XXV · Line 8Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
πεποτημέναι; πεπότησθε; ποτῶνται
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. XXV.8; LIX.5; LXIX.5