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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- swiftness
Meaning
Death ends youth's flowering in the swift course of life at LXXXVII.7. The dative ταχυτῆτι brings rapidity into the description of mortality. It is the brevity of life's movement, not a technical measurement of velocity, that gives the noun its force here.
Places to read
- Hymn LXXXVII · Line 7Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
ταχυτῆτι
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXXXVII.7