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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- giver of grain-heaps
Meaning
Demeter is σωρῖτις at XL.5, amid praise of agricultural abundance. The heap is the gathered produce of cultivation, so the epithet looks toward a successful harvest rather than undifferentiated wealth. It complements, rather than replaces, the hymn's other growth and nourishment words.
Places to read
- Hymn XL · Line 5Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
σωρῖτις
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. XL.5