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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- flesh-destroying
Meaning
The Eumenides’ answering gleam is flesh-destroying at LXX.7. The adjective belongs to the radiance, intensifying the threatening visual description. It is not an instruction to destroy flesh in a ritual or a statement that the worshippers perform such an act.
Places to read
- Hymn LXX · Line 7Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
σαρκοφθόρον
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXX.7