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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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- break; shatter; crush
Meaning
The sea breaks waves on shores and rocks, while Dikaiosyne crushes wrongdoers and human baseness. Death’s sleep shatters soul and bodily frame at LXXXVII.3. The physical breaking verb can be transferred to moral and mortal destruction, but its object must remain visible: the wave action is not a moral punishment.
Places to read
- Hymn XXII · Line 4Read the word in its hymn.
Attested forms
θραύει; θραύεις; θραύουσ’; θραύουσα
Occurrence inventory
4 in total. XXII.4; LXIII.5; LXIII.12; LXXXVII.3