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Homeric Hymns

Homeric tradition

Hymn 26 | Primary edition: Hugh G. Evelyn-White

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κισσοκόμην Διόνυσον ἐρίβρομον ἄρχομʼ ἀείδειν,

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Ζηνὸς καὶ Σεμέλης ἐρικυδέος ἀγλαὸν υἱόν,

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ὃν τρέφον ἠύκομοι Νύμφαι παρὰ πατρὸς ἄνακτος

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δεξάμεναι κόλποισι καὶ ἐνδυκέως ἀτίταλλον

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Νύσης ἐν γυάλοις· ὃ δʼ ἀέξετο πατρὸς ἕκητι

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ἄντρῳ ἐν εὐώδει μεταρίθμιος ἀθανάτοισιν.

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αὐτὰρ ἐπειδὴ τόνδε θεαὶ πολύυμνον ἔθρεψαν,

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δὴ τότε φοιτίζεσκε καθʼ ὑλήεντας ἐναύλους,

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κισσῷ καὶ δάφνῃ πεπυκασμένος· αἳ δʼ ἅμʼ ἕποντο

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Νύμφαι, ὃ δʼ ἐξηγεῖτο· βρόμος δʼ ἔχεν ἄσπετον ὕλην.

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καὶ σὺ μὲν οὕτω χαῖρε, πολυστάφυλʼ ὦ Διόνυσε·

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δὸς δʼ ἡμᾶς χαίροντας ἐς ὥρας αὖτις ἱκέσθαι,

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ἐκ δʼ αὖθʼ ὡράων εἰς τοὺς πολλοὺς ἐνιαυτούς.

Text notes and edition context

Work

Homeric Hymns

The Homeric Hymns range from brief invocations to extended mythic narratives, offering one of the clearest bridges between epic diction and cult praise.

Hymns | Original language: Ancient Greek

Archaic and later Greek hymn tradition, with core material commonly dated between the 7th and 5th centuries BCE

You are reading Hymn 26.

Primary Edition

Hugh G. Evelyn-White

Ancient Greek | Verse

Greek base text via Perseus canonical TEI

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Pilot canonical-spine import for the Homeric Hymns with one canonical file per hymn and CTS identity preserved.

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CTS range: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0013.tlg026.perseus-grc2:26.1 -> urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0013.tlg026.perseus-grc2:26.13

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Primary source: Greek canonical pilot texts | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit.

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 26 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.