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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 71 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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72.1

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Δεῦρο, Τύχη· καλέω σ’, ἀγαθὴν κράντειραν, ἐπ’ εὐχαῖς,

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μειλιχίην, ἐνοδῖτιν, ἐπ’ εὐόλβοις κτεάτεσσιν,

72.3

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Ἄρτεμιν ἡγεμόνην, μεγαλώνυμον, Εὐβουλῆος

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αἵματος ἐκγεγαῶσαν, ἀπρόσμαχον εἶδος ἔχουσαν,

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τυμβιδίην, πολύπλαγκτον, ἀοίδιμον ἀνθρώποισιν.

72.6

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ἐν σοὶ γὰρ βίοτος θνητῶν παμποίκιλός ἐστιν·

72.7

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οἷς μὲν γὰρ τεύχεις κτεάνων πλῆθος πολύολβον,

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οἷς δὲ κακὴν πενίην θυμῷ χόλον ὁρμαίνουσα.

72.9

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ἀλλά, θεά, λίτομαί σε μολεῖν βίῳ εὐμενέουσαν,

72.10

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ὄλβοισι πλήθουσαν ἐπ’ εὐόλβοις κτεάτεσσιν.

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/Τύχης :: pages 109,110 :: Abel hymn 72

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 71 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.