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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 33 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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34.1

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Ἐλθέ, μάκαρ Παιάν, Τιτυοκτόνε, Φοῖβε Λυκωρεῦ,

34.2

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Μεμφῖτ’, ἀγλαότιμος, ἰήιος, ὀλβιοδῶτα,

34.3

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χρυσολύρη, σπερμεῖος, ἀρότριε, Πύθιε, Τιτάν.

34.4

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Γρυνεῖε, Σμινθεῦ, Πυθοκτόνε, Δελφικέ, μάντι,

34.5

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ἄγριε, φωσφόρε δαῖμον, ἐράσμιε, κύδιμε κοῦρε,

34.6

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κρουσιλύρη, χαροποιός, ἑκηβόλε, τοξοβέλεμνε,

34.7

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Βράγχιε καὶ Διδυμεῦ, Παταρήιε, Λοξία, ἁγνέ·

34.8

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Δήλι’ ἄναξ, πανδερκὲς ἔχων φαεσίμβροτον ὄμμα,

34.9

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χρυσοκόμη, καθαρὰς φήμας χρησμούς τ’ ἀναφαίνων·

34.10

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κλῦθί μευ εὐχομένου λαῶν ὕπερ εὔφρονι θυμῷ·

34.11

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τόνδε σὺ γὰρ λεύσσεις τὸν ἀπείριτον αἰθέρα πάντα

34.12

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γαῖαν τ’ ὀλβιόμοιρον ὕπερθέν καὶ δι’ ἀμολγοῦ,

34.13

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νυκτὸς ἐν ἡσυχίῃσιν ὑπ’ ἀστεροόμματου ὄρφνης

34.14

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ῥίζας νέρθε δέδορκας, ἔχεις δέ τε πείρατα κόσμου

34.15

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παντός· σοὶ δ’ ἀρχή τε τελευτή τ’ ἐστὶ μέλουσα.

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παντοθαλές, σὺ δὲ πάντα πόλον κιθάρῃ πολυκρέκτῳ

34.17

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ἁρμόζεις, ὁτὲ μὲν νεάτης ἐπὶ τέρματα βαίνων,

34.18

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ἄλλοτε δ’ αὖθ’ ὑπάτην, ποτὲ Δώριον ἐς διάκοσμον

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πάντα πόλον κιρνὰς κρίνεις βιοθρέμμονα φῦλα,

34.20

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ἁρμονίῃ κεράσας παγκόσμιον ἀνδράσι μοῖραν·

34.21

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μίξας χειμῶνα, θέρος τ’ ἴσον ἀμφοτέροισιν,

34.22

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ταῖς ὑπάτας χειμῶνα, θέρος νεάταις διακρίνας,

34.23

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Δώριον εἰς ἔαρος πολυηράτου ὥριον ἄνθος.

34.24

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ἔνθεν ἐπωνυμίην σε βροτοὶ κλῄζουσιν ἄνακτα,

34.25

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Πᾶνα, θεὸν δικέρωτ’, ἀνέμων συρίγμαθ’ ἱέντα·

34.26

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οὕνεκα παντὸς ἔχεις κόσμου σφρηγῖδα τυπῶτιν.

34.27

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κλῦθι, μάκαρ, σώζων μύστας ἱκετηρίδι φωνῇ.

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/Απόλλωνος :: pages 90,91 :: Abel hymn 34

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 33 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.