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Orphic Hymns

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Hymn 58 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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Μοῖραι ἀπειρέσιοι, Νυκτὸς φίλα τέκνα μελαίνης,

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κλῦτέ μευ εὐχομένου, πολυώνυμοι, αἵτ’ ἐπὶ λίμνης

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ὀρφναίης, ἵνα λυγρὸν ὕδωρ νυχίης ὑπὸ θέρμης

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ῥήγνυται ἐν σκιερῷ λιπαρῷ μυχῷ εὐλίθου ἄντρου,

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ναίουσαι πεπότησθε βροτῶν ἐπ’ ἀπείρονα γαῖαν·

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ἔνθεν ἐπὶ βρότεον δόκιμον γένος ἐλπίδι κοῦφῃ

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στείχετε πορφυρέῃσι καλυψάμεναι ὀθόνῃσι

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μορσίμῳ ἐν πεδίῳ, ὅθι πάγγεον ἅρμα διώκει

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δόξα δίκης παρὰ τέρμα καὶ ἐλπίδος ἠδὲ μεριμνῶν

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καὶ νόμου ὠγυγίου καὶ ἀπείρονος εὐνόμου ἀρχῆς·

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Μοῖρα γὰρ ἐν βιότῳ καθορᾷ μόνη, οὐδέ τις ἄλλος

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ἀθανάτων, οἳ ἔχουσι κάρη νιφόεντος Ὀλύμπου,

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καὶ Διὸς ὄμμα τέλειον· ἐπεί γ’ ὅσα γίγνεται ἡμῖν,

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Μοῖρά τε καὶ Διὸς οἶδε νόος διὰ παντὸς ἅπαντα.

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ἀλλά μοι ἠέριαι μαλακόφρονες, ἠπιόθυμοι,

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Ἄτροπε καὶ Λάχεσι, Κλωθώ, μόλετ’, εὐπατέρειαι,

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νυκτέριαι, ἀφανεῖς, ἀμετάτροποι, αἰὲν ἀτειρεῖς,

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παντοδότειραι, ἀφαιρέτιδες θνητοῖσιν ἀνάγκης·

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Μοῖραι, ἀκούσατ’ ἐμῶν ὁσίων λοιβῶν τε καὶ εὐχῶν,

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ἐρχόμεναι μύσταις λαθικηδέες εὔφρονι βουλῇ.

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

You are reading Hymn 58.

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/Μοιρών :: pages 103,104 :: Abel hymn 59

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 58 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.