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Sibylline Oracles

Sibylline tradition

Book 6 | Primary edition: Greek source text

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Λόγος ἕκτος

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Ἀθανάτου μέγαν υἱὸν ἀοίδιμον ἐκ φρενὸς αὐδῶ,

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ᾧ θρόνον ὕψιστος γενέτης παρέδωκε λαβέσθαι

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οὔπω γεννηθέντι· ἐπεὶ κατὰ σάρκα τὸ δισσόν

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ἠγέρθη, προχοαῖς ἀπολουσάμενος ποταμοῖο

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Ἰορδάνου, ὃς φέρεται γλαυκῷ ποδί, κύματα σύρων.

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ὃς πυρὸς ἐκφεύξας πρῶτος θεὸν ὄψεται ἡδύν

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πνεύματι γινόμενον, λευκαῖς πτερύγεσσι πελείης.

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ἀνθήσει δ᾽ ἄνθος καθαρόν, βρύσουσι δὲ πηγαί.

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δείξω δ᾽ ἀνθρώποισι ὁδούς, δείξει δὲ κελεύθους

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οὐρανίας· πάντας δὲ σοφοῖς μύθοισι διδάξει.

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ἥξει δ᾽ ἔς τε δίκην καὶ πείσει λαὸν ἀπειθῆ

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αἰνετὸν αὐχήσας πατρὸς γένος οὐρανίδαο.

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κύματα πεζεύσει, νόσον ἀνθρώπων ἀπολύσει,

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στήσει τεθνηῶτας, ἀπώσεται ἄλγεα πολλά·

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ἐκ δὲ μιῆς πήρης ἄρτου κόρος ἔσσεται ἀνδρῶν,

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οἶκος ὅταν Δαυὶδ φύῃ φυτόν· ἐν χερὶ δ᾽ αὐτοῦ

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κόσμος ὅλος καὶ γαῖα καὶ οὐρανὸς ἠδὲ θάλασσα.

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ἀστράψει δ᾽ ἐπὶ γῆν, οἷόν ποτε πρῶτα φανέντα

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εἶδον ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων πλευρῶν δύο γεννηθέντες.

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ἔσσεται, ἡνίκα γαῖα χαρήσεται ἐλπίδι παιδός.

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σοι δὲ μόνῃ, Σοδομῖτι γαίη, κακὰ πήματα κεῖται·

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αὐτὴ γὰρ δύσφρων τὸν σὸν θεὸν οὐκ ἐνόησας

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ἐλθόντα θνητοῖσιν ἐν ὄμμασιν· ἀλλ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ἀκάνθης

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ἔστρεψας στεφάνῳ, φοβερὴν δὲ χολὴν ἐκέρασσας

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εἰς ὕβριν καὶ πνεῦμα· τό σοι κακὰ πήματα τεύξει.

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ὦ ξύλον ὦ μακαριστόν, ἐφ᾽ οὗ θεὸς ἐξετανύσθη,

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οὐχ ἕξει σε χθών, ἀλλ᾽ οὐρανὸν οἶκον ἐσόψει,

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ἡνίκα ἀστράψειε τὸ σόν, θεός, ἔμπυρον ὄμμα.

Text notes and edition context

Work

Sibylline Oracles

The extant Sibylline corpus is mixed, layered, and often severe in tone; the current reading layer now carries the full public-domain Terry witness and a pinned Greek Geffcken/OCP source across books 1-8 and 11-14.

Oracular poetry | Original language: Ancient Greek

Hellenistic to late antique Greek oracular anthology

You are reading Book 6.

Primary Edition

Greek source text

Ancient Greek | Verse

Greek OCP / Geffcken 1902 witness

This edition preserves the Greek OCP transcription of Geffcken's 1902 Sibylline text, pinned to the public OCP GitHub source and NFC-normalized for corpus use.

Greek ritual witness for direct reading and coarse compare mode against Terry, including books 1-8 and 11-14 with the source's zero-based line numbering preserved.

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: 456ef828834a

Source path: static/docs/SibOr.xml

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

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Book 6 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.