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Orphic Hymns

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Hymn 27 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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28.1

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Κλῦθί μευ, Ἑρμεία, Διὸς ἄγγελε, Μαιάδος υἱέ,

28.2

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παγκρατὲς ἦτορ ἔχων, ἐναγώνιε, κοίρανε θνητῶν,

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εὔφρον, ποικιλόβουλε, διάκτορε Ἀργειφόντα,

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πτηνοπέδιλε, φίλανδρε, λόγου θνητοῖσι προφῆτα,

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γυμνάσιν ὃς χαίρεις δολίαις τ’ ἀπάταις, στροφιοῦχε,

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ἑρμηνεῦ πάντων, κερδέμπορε, λυσιμέριμνε,

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ὃς χείρεσσιν ἔχεις εἰρήνης ὅπλον ἀμεμφές,

28.8

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Κωρυκιῶτα, μάκαρ, ἐριούνιε, ποικιλόμυθε,

28.9

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ἐργασίαις ἐπαρωγέ, φίλε θνητοῖς ἐν ἀνάγκαις,

28.10

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γλώσσης δεινὸν ὅπλον τὸ σεβάσμιον ἀνθρώποισι·

28.11

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κλῦθί μευ εὐχομένου, βιότου τέλος ἐσθλὸν ὀπάζων

28.12

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ἐργασίῃσι, λόγου χάρισιν, καὶ μνημοσύνῃσιν.

Text notes and edition context

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Orphic Hymns

The Orphic Hymns compress cosmology, prayer, ritual address, and divine epithets into compact devotional poems especially suited to meditative and oracle-like reading; the corpus now also carries an Abel-based Greek witness aligned as honestly as possible against the existing Taylor English sequence.

Hymns | Original language: Ancient Greek

Late Hellenistic to early Imperial Greek religious poetry, often dated between the 2nd century BCE and 2nd century CE

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Primary Edition

Greek source text

Ancient Greek | Verse

Greek Abel 1885 witness via Wikisource page transcription

This edition preserves the Greek text of the Orphic Hymns from the Abel-based Greek Wikisource transcription, pinned by revision id and NFC-normalized for corpus use.

The Greek layer is aligned to the existing Taylor English sequence for compare reading, so the Musaeus proem and Abel hymn 1 (Hecate) remain outside the current main corpus book run.

Source family: Greek ritual source texts

Wikisource / Internet Archive | Public-domain source texts

Greek hymn and oracle witnesses staged where page-level provenance is clean enough to support direct reading.

Pinned source commit: elwikisource

Source path: Ορφικοί ύμνοι/Ερμού :: pages 87 :: Abel hymn 28

Primary source: Greek ritual source texts | Wikisource / Internet Archive.

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 27 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.