Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 72 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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73.1	Primary Δαίμονα κικλήσκω πελάσαι ἡγήτορα φρικτόν, Permalink
73.2	Primary μειλίχιον Δία, παγγενέτην, βιοδώτορα θνητῶν, Permalink
73.3	Primary Ζῆνα μέγαν, πολύπλαγκτον, ἀλάστορα, παμβασιλῆα, Permalink
73.4	Primary πλουτοδότην, ὁπότ’ ἄν γε βρυάζων οἶκον ἐσέλθῃ, Permalink
73.5	Primary ἔμπαλι δὲ ψύχοντα βίον θνητῶν πολυμόχθων· Permalink
73.6	Primary ἐν σοὶ γὰρ κλῇδες λύπης τε χαρᾶς τ’ ὀχέονται. Permalink
73.7	Primary τοιγάρ τοι, μάκαρ, ἁγνέ, πολύστονα κήδε’ ἐλάσσας, Permalink
73.8	Primary ὅσσα βιοφθορίην πέμπει κατὰ γαῖαν ἅπασαν, Permalink
73.9	Primary εὔδοξον βιοτῆς γλυκερὸν τέλος ἐσθλὸν ὀπάζοις. 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/Δαίμονος :: pages 110 :: Abel hymn 73

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