Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 32 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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33.1	Primary Εὐδύνατον καλέω Νίκην, θνητοῖσι ποθεινήν, Permalink
33.2	Primary ἣ μούνη λύει θνητῶν ἐναγώνιον ὁρμὴν Permalink
33.3	Primary καὶ στάσιν ἀλγινόεσσαν ἐπ’ ἀντιπάλοισι μάχῃσιν, Permalink
33.4	Primary ἐν πολέμοις κρίνουσα τροπαιούχοισιν ἐπ’ ἔργοις, Permalink
33.5	Primary οἷς ἂν ἐφορμαίνουσα φέρῃς γλυκερώτατον εὖχος· Permalink
33.6	Primary πάντων γὰρ κρατέεις, πάσης δ’ ἔριδος κλέος ἐσθλὸν Permalink
33.7	Primary Νίκῃ ἐπ' εὐδόξῳ κεῖται θαλίῃσι βρυάζον. Permalink
33.8	Primary ἀλλά, μάκαιρ’, ἔλθοις πεποθημένῳ ὄμματι φαιδρῷ, Permalink
33.9	Primary αἰεὶ ἐπ’ εὐδόξοις ἔργοις κλέος ἐσθλὸν ἄγουσα. Permalink

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/Νίκης :: pages 90 :: Abel hymn 33

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