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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 60 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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61.1

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Ὦ Νέμεσι, κλῄζω σε, θεά, βασίλεια μεγίστη,

61.2

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πανδερκής, ἐσορῶσα βίον θνητῶν πολυφύλων·

61.3

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ἀιδίη, πολύσεμνε, μόνη χαίρουσα δικαίοις,

61.4

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ἀλλ’ ἔχθουσα λόγον πολυποίκιλον, ἄστατον αἰεί,

61.5

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ἣν πάντες δεδίασι βροτοὶ ζυγὸν αὐχένι θέντες· 5

61.6

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σοὶ γὰρ ἀεὶ γνώμη πάντων μέλει, οὐδέ σε λήθει

61.7

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ψυχὴ ὑπερφρονέουσα λόγων ἀδιακρίτῳ ὁρμῇ.

61.8

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πάντ’ ἐσορᾷς καὶ πάντ’ ἐπακούεις, καὶ πάντα βραβεύεις·

61.9

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ἐν σοὶ δ’ εἰσὶ δίκαι θνητῶν, πανυπέρτατε δαῖμον.

61.10

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ἐλθέ, μάκαιρ’, ἁγνή, μύσταις ἐπιτάρροθος αἰεί· 10

61.11

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δὸς δ’ ἀγαθὴν διάνοιαν ἔχειν, παύουσα πανεχθεῖς

61.12

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γνώμας οὐχ ὁσίας, πανυπέρφρονας, ἀλλοπροσάλλας.

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/Νεμέσεως :: pages 104,105 :: Abel hymn 61

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 60 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.