Explained vocabulary

Manner — τρόπος

τρόπος

tropos

Law drives out envy in the manner of a rushing whirr at LXIV.6.

From the book

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

Attributed to Orpheus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
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Meaning

Law drives out envy in the manner of a rushing whirr at LXIV.6. The expression ῥοίζου τρόπον compares how the action happens. Here τρόπος is neither a musical mode nor a technical moral character; its force depends on the accompanying sound-and-motion image.

Places to read

  1. Hymn LXIV · Line 6Read the word in its hymn.

Attested forms

τρόπον

Occurrence inventory

1 in total. LXIV.6

Lexical references

LSJ τρόπος2 (n105531)