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Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 85 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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86.1

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Κικλήσκω σε, μάκαρ, τανυσίπτερε, οὖλε Ὄνειρε,

86.2

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ἄγγελε μελλόντων, θνητοῖς χρησμῳδὲ μέγιστε·

86.3

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ἡσυχίῃ γὰρ ὕπνου γλυκεροῦ σιγηλὸς ἐπελθών,

86.4

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προσφωνῶν ψυχαῖς θνητῶν νόον αὐτὸς ἐγείρεις,

86.5

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καὶ γνώμας μακάρων αὐτὸς καθ’ ὕπνους ὑποπέμπεις,

86.6

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σιγῶν σιγώσαις ψυχαῖς μέλλοντα προφαίνων,

86.7

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οἷσιν ἐπ’ εὐσεβίῃσι θεῶν νόος ἐσθλὸς ὁδεύει,

86.8

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ὡς ἂν ἀεὶ τὸ καλὸν μᾶλλον, γνώμῃσι προληφθέν,

86.9

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τερπωλαῖς ὑπάγῃ βίον ἀνθρώπων προχαρέντων,

86.10

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τῶν δὲ κακῶν ἀνάπαυσιν, ὅπως θεὸς αὐτὸς ἐνίσπῃ

86.11

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εὐχωλαῖς θυσίαις τε χόλον λύσαντες ἀνάκτων.

86.12

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εὐσεβέσιν γὰρ ἀεὶ τὸ τέλος γλυκερώτερόν ἐστι,

86.13

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τοῖς δὲ κακοῖς οὔ κὲν φαίνοι μέλλουσαν ἀνάγκην

86.14

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ὄψις ὀνειρήεσσα, κακῶν ἐξάγγελος ἔργων,

86.15

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ὄφρα μὴ εὕρωνται λύσιν ἄλγεος ἐρχομένοιο.

86.16

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ἀλλά, μάκαρ, λίτομαί σε θεῶν μηνύματα φράζειν,

86.17

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ὡς ἂν ἀεὶ γνώμαις ὀρθαῖς κατὰ πάντα πελάζῃς

86.18

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μηδὲν ἐπ’ ἀλλοκότοισι κακῶν σημεῖα προφαίνων.

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/Ονείρου :: pages 115 :: Abel hymn 86

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 85 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.