Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 68 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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69.1	Primary Κλῦτε, θεαὶ πάντιμοι, ἐρίβρομοι, εὐάστειραι, Permalink
69.2	Primary Τισιφόνη τε καὶ Ἀλληκτὼ καὶ δῖα Μέγαιρα· Permalink
69.3	Primary νυκτέριαι, μυχίοις ὑπὸ κεύθεσιν οἰκί’ ἔχουσαι Permalink
69.4	Primary ἄντρῳ ἐν ἠερόεντι παρὰ Στυγὸς ἱερὸν ὕδωρ, Permalink
69.5	Primary οὐχ ὁσίαις βουλαῖσι βροτῶν κεκοτημέναι αἰεὶ Permalink
69.6	Primary λυσσήρεις, ἀγέρωχοι, ἐπευάζουσαι ἀνάγκαις, Permalink
69.7	Primary θηρόπεπλοι, τιμωροί, ἐρισθενέες, βαρυαλγεῖς, Permalink
69.8	Primary Ἀίδεω χθόνιαι, φοβεραὶ κόραι, αἰολόμορφοι, Permalink
69.9	Primary ἠέριαι, ἀφανεῖς, ὠκυδρόμοι ὥστε νόημα, Permalink
69.10	Primary αἵτ’ αἰεὶ θνητῶν πάντων ἐπ’ ἀπείρονα φῦλα Permalink
69.11	Primary ὄμμα Δίκης ἐφορᾶτε, δικασπόλοι αἰὲν ἐοῦσαι. Permalink
69.12	Primary ἀλλά, θεαὶ Μοῖραι, ὀφιοπλόκαμοι, πολύμορφοι, Permalink
69.13	Primary πραΰνοον μετάθεσθε βίου μαλακόφρονα δόξαν. Permalink

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/Εριννύων :: pages 108 :: Abel hymn 69

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