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Orphic Hymns

Hymn 86, Line 1 by Thomas Taylor (English)

Hear me, O Death [Thanatos], whose empire unconfin'd, extends to mortal tribes of ev'ry kind.

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Archival source: https://archive.org/details/b28775430. Extracted from Theoi HTML for hymn 86; bracketed Greek names follow Theoi's public-domain presentation.