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Orphic Hymns

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Hymn 70 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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71.1

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Μειλινόην καλέω, νύμφην χθονίην, κροκόπεπλον,

71.2

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ἣν παρὰ Κωκυτοῦ προχοαῖς ἐλοχεύσατο σεμνὴ

71.3

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Φερσεφόνη λέκτροις ἱεροῖς Ζηνὸς Κρονίοιο,

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ᾗ ψευσθεῖς Πλούτων’ ἐμίγη δολίαις ἀπάτῃσι,

71.5

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θυμῷ Φερσεφόνης δὲ δισώματον ἔσπασε χροιήν,

71.6

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ἣ θνητοὺς μαίνει φαντάσμασιν ἠερίοισιν,

71.7

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ἀλλοκότοις ἰδέαις μορφῆς τύπον ἐκπροφανοῦσα,

71.8

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ἄλλοτε μὲν προφανής, ποτὲ δὲ σκοτόεσσα, νυχαυγής,

71.9

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ἀνταίαις ἐφόδοισι κατὰ ζοφοειδέα νύκτα.

71.10

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ἀλλά, θεά, λίτομαί σε, καταχθονίων βασίλεια,

71.11

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ψυχῆς ἐκπέμπειν οἶστρον ἐπὶ τέρματα γαίης,

71.12

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εὐμενὲς εὐίερον μύσταις φαίνουσα πρόσωπον.

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/Μειλινόης :: pages 109 :: Abel hymn 71

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 70 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.