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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 31 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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32.1

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Παλλὰς μουνογενές, μεγάλου Διὸς ἔκγονε σεμνή,

32.2

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δῖα, μάκαιρα θεά, πολεμοκλόνος, ὀβριμόθυμε,

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ἄρρητη, ῥητή, μεγαλώνυμος, ἀντροδίαιτε·

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ἣ κατέχεις ὄχθων ὑψηχεας ἀκρωρείας

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ἠδ’ ὄρεα σκιόεντα, νάπῃσί τε σὴν φρένα τέρπεις,

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ὁπλοχαρής, οἰστροῦσα βροτῶν ψυχὰς μανίῃσι,

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γυμνάζουσα κόρη, φρικώδη θυμὸν ἔχουσα,

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Γοργοφόνος, φυγόλεκτρε, τεχνῶν μῆτερ πολύολβε.

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ὁρμήτειρα, φίλοιστρε κακοῖς, ἀγαθοῖς δὲ φρόνησις·

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ἄρσην μὲν καὶ θῆλυς ἔφυς, πολεμήτοκε μῆτι.

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αἰολόμορφε, δράκαινα, φιλένθεος, ἀγλαότιμε·

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Φλεγραίων ὀλέτειρα Γιγάντων, ἱππελάτειρα.

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Τριτογένεια, λύτειρα κακῶν, νικηφόρε δαῖμον,

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γλαυκώφ’, εὑρεσίτεχνε, πολυλλίστη βασίλεια

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ἤματα καὶ νύκτας αἰεὶ νεάτῃσιν ἐν ὥραις,

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κλῦθί μευ εὐχομένου, δὸς δ’ εἰρήνην πολύολβον

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καὶ κόρην ἠδ’ ὑγίειαν ἐπ’ εὐόλβοισιν ἐν ὥραις.

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/Αθηνάς :: pages 89,90 :: Abel hymn 32

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 31 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.