Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 57 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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58.1	Primary Κικλήσκω μέγαν, ἁγνόν, ἐράσμιον, ἡδὺν Ἔρωτα, Permalink
58.2	Primary τοξαλκῆ, πτερόεντα, πυρίδρομον, εὔδρομον ὁρμῇ, Permalink
58.3	Primary συμπαίζοντα θεοῖς ἠδὲ θνητοῖς ἀνθρώποις, Permalink
58.4	Primary εὐπάλαμον, διφυῆ, πάντων κληῖδας ἔχοντα, Permalink
58.5	Primary αἰθέρος οὐρανίου, πόντου, χθονός, ἠδ’ ὅσα θνητοῖς Permalink
58.6	Primary πνεύματα παντογένεθλα θεὰ βόσκει χλοόκαρπος, Permalink
58.7	Primary ἠδ’ ὅσα Τάρταρος εὐρὺς ἔχει πόντος θ’ ἁλίδουπος· Permalink
58.8	Primary μοῦνος γὰρ τούτων πάντων οἴηκα κρατύνεις. Permalink
58.9	Primary ἀλλά, μάκαρ, καθαραῖς γνώμαις μύσταισι συνέρχου, Permalink
58.10	Primary φαύλους δ’ ἐκτοπίους θ’ ὁρμὰς ἀπὸ τῶνδ’ ἀπόπεμπε. 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/Έρωτος :: pages 103 :: Abel hymn 58

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