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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 61 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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62.1

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Ὄμμα Δίκης μέλπω πανδερκέος, ἀγλαομόρφου,

62.2

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ἣ καὶ Ζηνὸς ἄνακτος ἐπὶ θρόνον ἱερὸν ἵζει

62.3

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οὐρανόθεν καθορῶσα βίον θνητῶν πολυφύλων,

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τοῖς ἀδίκοις τιμωρὸς ἐπιβρίθουσα δικαίη,

62.5

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ἐξ ἰσότητος ἀληθείαι συνάγουσ’ ἀνόμοια· 5

62.6

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πάντα γάρ, ὅσσα κακαῖς γνώμαις θνητοῖσιν ὀχεῖται

62.7

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δύσκριτα, βουλομένοις τὸ πλέον βουλαῖς ἀδίκοισι,

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μούνη ἐπεμβαίνουσα δίκην ἀδίκοις ἐπεγείρεις·

62.9

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ἐχθρὴ τῶν ἀδίκων, εὔφρων δὲ σύνεσσι δικαίοις.

62.10

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ἀλλά, θεά, μόλ’ ἔπι γνώμαις ἐσθλῇσι δικαίη, 10

62.11

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ὡς ἂν ἀεὶ βιοτῆς τὸ πεπρωμένον ἦμαρ ἐπέλθῃ.

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/Δίκης :: pages 105 :: Abel hymn 62

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 61 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.