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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- heat; warmth
Meaning
At LIX.3 nocturnal heat accompanies the dark lake and its troubling water in the Fates’ setting. The genitive after ὑπό marks the heat as a condition or cause in the description. The line provides no mechanism for the warmth and does not establish a known thermal spring.
Places to read
- Hymn LIX · Line 3Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
θέρμης
Occurrence inventory
1 in total. LIX.3