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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 77 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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78.1

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Κλῦθι, θεά, θνητοῖς φαεσίμβροτον ἦμαρ ἄγουσα,

78.2

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Ἠοῖ λαμπροφαής, ἐρυθαινομένη κατὰ κόσμον,

78.3

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ἀγγελλιεια θεοῦ μεγάλου Τιτῆνος ἀγαυοῦ,

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ἣ νυκτὸς ζοφόεντα κελαινόχρωτα πορείην

78.5

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ἀντολίαις ταῖς σαῖς πέμπεις ὑπὸ νέρτερα γαίης·

78.6

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ἔργων ἡγήτειρα, βίου πρόπολε θνητοῖσιν·

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ᾗ χαίρει θνητῶν μερόπων γένος· οὐδέ τίς ἐστιν,

78.8

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ὃς φεύγει τὴν σὴν ὄψιν καθυπέρτερον οὖσαν,

78.9

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ἡνίκα τὸν γλυκὺν ὕπνον ἀπὸ βλεφάρων ἀποσείσῃς,

78.10

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πᾶς δὲ βροτὸς γήθει, πᾶν ἑρπετὸν ἄλλα τε φῦλα

78.11

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τετραπόδων πτηνῶν τε καὶ εἰναλίων πολυεθνῶν·

78.12

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πᾶσι γὰρ ἐργάσιμον βίοτον θνητοῖσι πορίζεις.

78.13

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ἀλλά, μάκαιρ’, ἁγνή, μύσταις ἱερὸν φάος αὔξοις.

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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/Ηούς :: pages 112 :: Abel hymn 78

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 77 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.