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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 50 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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51.1

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Νύμφαι, θυγατέρες μεγαλήτορος Ὠκεανοῖο,

51.2

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ὑγροπόροις γαίης ὑπὸ κεύθεσιν οἰκί’ ἔχουσαι,

51.3

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κρυψίδρομοι, Βάκχοιο τροφοί, χθόνιαι, πολυγηθεῖς,

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καρποτρόφοι, λειμωνιάδες, σκολιοδρόμοι, ἁγναί,

51.5

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ἀντροχαρεῖς, σπήλυγξι κεχαρμέναι, ἠερόφοιτοι,

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πηγαῖαι, δρομάδες, δροσοείμονες, ἴχνεσι κοῦφαι,

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φαινόμεναι, ἀφανεῖς, αὐλωνιάδες, πολυανθεῖς,

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σὺν Πανὶ σκιρτῶσαι ἀν’ οὔρεα, εὐάστειραι,

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πετρόρυτοι, λιγυραί, βομβήτριαι, οὐρεσίφοιτοι,

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ἀγρότεραι κοῦραι, κρουνίτιδες ὑλονόμοι τε,

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παρθένοι εὐώδεις, λευχείμονες, εὔπνοοι αὔραις, (10)

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αἰπολικαί, νόμιαι, θηρσὶν φίλαι, ἀγλαόκαρποι,

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κρυμοχαρεῖς, ἁπαλαί, πολυθρέμμονες αὐξίτροφοί τε,

51.14

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κοῦραι ἁμαδρυάδες, φιλοπαίγμονες, ὑγροκέλευθοι,

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Νύσαῖαι, μανικαί, παιωνίδες, εἰαροτερπεῖς,

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σὺν Βάκχῳ Δηοῖ τε χάριν θνητοῖσι φέρουσαι· (15)

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ἔλθετ’ ἐπ’ εὐφήμοις ἱεροῖς κεχαρηότι θυμῷ

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νᾶμα χέουσ’ ὑγεινὸν ἀεξιτρόφοισιν ἐν ὥραις.

Text notes and edition context

Work

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/Νυμφών :: pages 98,99 :: Abel hymn 51

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 50 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.