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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 62 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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63.1

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Ὠ θνητοῖσι δικαιοτάτη, πολύολβε, ποθεινή,

63.2

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ἐξ ἰσότητος ἀεὶ θνητοῖς χαίρουσα δικαίοις,

63.3

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πάντιμ’, ὀλβιόμοιρε, Δικαιοσύνη μεγαλαυχές,

63.4

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ἣ καθαραῖς γνώμαις ἀεὶ τἁ δέοντα βραβεύεις,

63.5

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ἄθραυστος το συνειδός· ἀεὶ θραύεις γἁρ ἅπαντας 5

63.6

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ὄσσοι μὴ τὁ σὸν ἦλθον ὑπὸ ζυγόν, ἀλλοπρόσαλλοι,

63.7

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πλάστιγξι βριαρῇσι παρεγκλίναντες ἀπλήστως·

63.8

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ἀστασίαστε, φίλη πάντων, φιλόκωμ’, ἐρατεινή,

63.9

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εἰρήνῃ χαίρουσα, βίον ζηλοῦσα βέβαιον·

63.10

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αἰεὶ γὰρ τὸ πλέον στυγέεις, ἰσότητι δὲ χαίρεις·

63.11

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ἐν σοὶ γὰρ σοφίη ἀρετῆς τέλος ἐσθλὸν ἱκάνει.

63.12

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κλῦθι, θεά, κακίην θνητῶν θραύουσα δικαίως,

63.13

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ὡς ἂν ἰσορροπίῃσιν ἀεὶ βίος ἐσθλὸς ὁδεύῃ

63.14

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θνητῶν ἀνθρώπων, οἳ ἀρούρης καρπὸν ἔδουσι,

63.15

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καὶ ζῴων πάντων, ὁπόσ’ ἐν κόλποισι τιθηνεῖ

63.16

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γαῖα θεὰ μήτηρ καὶ πόντιος εἰνάλιος Ζεύς.

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/Δικαιοσύνης :: pages 105,106 :: Abel hymn 63

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 62 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.