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Homeric Hymns

Homeric tradition

Hymn 6 | Primary edition: Hugh G. Evelyn-White

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αἰδοίην, χρυσοστέφανον, καλὴν Ἀφροδίτην

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ᾄσομαι, ἣ πάσης Κύπρου κρήδεμνα λέλογχεν

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εἰναλίης, ὅθι μιν Ζεφύρου μένος ὑγρὸν ἀέντος

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ἤνεικεν κατὰ κῦμα πολυφλοίσβοιο θαλάσσης

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ἀφρῷ ἔνι μαλακῷ· τὴν δὲ χρυσάμπυκες Ὧραι

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δέξαντ’ ἀσπασίως, περὶ δ’ ἄμβροτα εἵματα ἕσσαν·

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κρατὶ δ’ ἐπ’ ἀθανάτῳ στεφάνην εὔτυκτον ἔθηκαν

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καλήν, χρυσείην· ἐν δὲ τρητοῖσι λοβοῖσιν

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ἄνθεμ’ ὀρειχάλκου χρυσοῖό τε τιμήεντος·

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δειρῇ δ’ ἀμφ’ ἁπαλῇ καὶ στήθεσιν ἀργυφέοισιν

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ὅρμοισι χρυσέοισιν ἐκόσμεον, οἷσί περ αὐταὶ

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Ὧραι κοσμείσθην χρυσάμπυκες, ὁππότ’ ἴοιεν

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ἐς χορὸν ἱμερόεντα θεῶν καὶ δώματα πατρός.

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αὐτὰρ ἐπειδὴ πάντα περὶ χροῒ κόσμον ἔθηκαν,

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ἦγον ἐς ἀθανάτους· οἳ δ’ ἠσπάζοντο ἰδόντες

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χερσί τ’ ἐδεξιόωντο καὶ ἠρήσαντο ἕκαστος

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εἶναι κουριδίην ἄλοχον καὶ οἴκαδ’ ἄγεσθαι,

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εἶδος θαυμάζοντες ἰοστεφάνου Κυθερείης.

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χαῖρ’ ἑλικοβλέφαρε, γλυκυμείλιχε· δὸς δ’ ἐν ἀγῶνι

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νίκην τῷδε φέρεσθαι, ἐμὴν δ’ ἔντυνον ἀοιδήν.

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αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ καὶ σεῖο καὶ ἄλλης μνήσομ’ ἀοιδῆς.

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 6.

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.tlg006.perseus-grc2:6.1 -> urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0013.tlg006.perseus-grc2:6.21

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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 6 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.