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Orphic Hymns

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Hymn 63 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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64.1

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Ἀθανάτων καλέω καὶ θνητῶν ἁγνὸν ἄνακτα,

64.2

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οὐράνιον Νόμον, ἀστροθέτην, σφρηγῖδα δικαίην

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πόντου τ’ εἰναλίου καὶ γῆς, φύσεως τὸ βέβαιον

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ἀκλινὲς ἀστασίαστον ἀεὶ τηροῦντα νόμοισιν,

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οἷσιν ἄνωθε φέρων μέγαν οὐρανὸν αὐτὸς ὁδεύει,

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καὶ φθόνον οὐτιδανὸν ῥοίζου τρόπον ἐκτὸς ἐλαύνει·

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ὃς καὶ θνητοῖσιν βιοτῆς τέλος ἐσθλὸν ἐγείρει·

64.8

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αὐτὸς γὰρ μοῦνος ζῴων οἴηκα κρατύνει

64.9

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γνώμαις ὀρθοτάτας συνεών, ἀδιάστροφος αἰεί,

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ὠγύγιος, πολύπειρος, ἀβλάπτως πᾶσι συνοικῶν

64.11

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τοῖς νομίμοις, ἀνόμοις δὲ φέρων κακότητα βαρεῖαν.

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ἀλλά, μάκαρ, πάντιμε, φερόλβιε, πᾶσι ποθεινέ,

64.13

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εὐμενὲς ἦτορ ἔχων μνήμην σέο πέμπε, φέριστε.

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/Ύμνος Νόμου :: pages 106 :: Abel hymn 64

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 63 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.