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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- stormer of walls
Meaning
Ares is addressed as a stormer of walls at LXV.2. The martial compound makes him an attacker of defended places, sharpening the hymn's depiction of destructive force before it asks him to yield to peace. A general gloss such as powerful would lose the siege image.
Places to read
- Hymn LXV · Line 2Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
τειχεσιπλῆτα
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LXV.2