Orphic Hymns

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Hymn 67 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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68.1	Primary Ἱμερόεσσ’, ἐρατή, πολυθάλμιε, παμβασίλεια, Permalink
68.2	Primary κλῦθι, μάκαιρ’ Ὑγίεια, φερόλβιε, μῆτερ ἁπάντων· Permalink
68.3	Primary ἐκ σέο γὰρ νοῦσοι μὲν ἀποφθινύθουσι βροτοῖσι, Permalink
68.4	Primary πᾶς δὲ δόμος θάλλει πολυγηθὴς εἵνεκα σεῖο, Permalink
68.5	Primary καὶ τέχναι βρίθουσι· ποθεῖ δέ σε κόσμος, ἄνασσα, Permalink
68.6	Primary μοῦνος δὲ στυγέει σ’ Ἀίδης ψυχοφθόρος αἰεί, Permalink
68.7	Primary ἀιθαλής, εὐκταιοτάτη, θνητῶν ἀνάπαυμα· Permalink
68.8	Primary σοῦ γὰρ ἄτερ πάντ’ ἐστὶν ἀνωφελῆ ἀνθρώποισιν· Permalink
68.9	Primary οὔτε γὰρ ὀλβοδότης πλοῦτος γλυκερὸς θαλίῃσιν, Permalink
68.10	Primary οὔτε γέρων πολύμοχθος ἄτερ σέο γίγνεται ἀνήρ· Permalink
68.11	Primary πάντων γὰρ κρατέεις μούνη καὶ πᾶσιν ἀνάσσεις. Permalink
68.12	Primary ἀλλά, θεά, μόλε μυστιπόλοις ἐπιτάρροθος αἰεὶ Permalink
68.13	Primary ῥυομένη νούσων χαλεπῶν κακόποτμον ἀνίην. Permalink

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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/Υγείας :: pages 108 :: Abel hymn 68

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