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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- beget or bear
Meaning
Zeus begets Phersephone (XXIX.7), Mnemosyne bears the Muses (LXXVII.2), and Dionysos has been begotten in unspeakable beds (XXX.7). The same verb can describe a father's or a mother's generative action, while the passive leaves the child as its grammatical subject. Do not turn every occurrence into maternal childbirth merely because one named parent is female.
Places to read
- Hymn XXIX · Line 7Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
τεκνωθείς; τέκνωσ’; τεκνώσατο
Occurrence inventory
3 in total. XXIX.7; XXX.7; LXXVII.2