Orphic Hymns

Orphic tradition

Hymn 86 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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87.1	Primary Κλῦθί μευ, ὃς πάντων θνητῶν οἴηκα κρατύνεις Permalink
87.2	Primary πᾶσι διδοὺς χρόνον ἁγνόν, ὅσων πόρρωθεν ὑπάρχεις· Permalink
87.3	Primary σὸς γὰρ ὕπνος ψυχῆν θραύει καὶ σώματος ὁλκόν, Permalink
87.4	Primary ἡνίκ’ ἂν ἐκλύῃς φύσεως κεκρατημένα δεσμὰ Permalink
87.5	Primary τὸν μακρὸν ζῴοισι φέρων αἰώνιον ὕπνον, Permalink
87.6	Primary κοινὸς μὲν πάντων, ἄδικος δ’ ἐνίοισιν ὑπάρχων, Permalink
87.7	Primary ἐν ταχυτῆτι βίου παύων νεοήλικας ἀκμάς· Permalink
87.8	Primary ἐν σοὶ γὰρ μούνῳ πάντων τὸ κριθὲν τελεοῦται· Permalink
87.9	Primary οὔτε γὰρ εὐχῇσιν πείθῃ μόνος οὔτε λιτῇσιν. Permalink
87.10	Primary ἀλλά, μάκαρ, μακροῖσι χρόνοις ζωῆς σε πελάζειν Permalink
87.11	Primary αἰτοῦμαι, θυσίαισι καὶ εὐχωλαῖς λιτανεύων, Permalink
87.12	Primary ὡς ἂν ἔῃ γέρας ἐσθλὸν ἐν ἀνθρώποισι τὸ γῆρας. 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/Θανάτου :: pages 115,116 :: Abel hymn 87

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