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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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II. To Prothyraia · Lines 8–14
Ancient Greek
p. 22II. ΠΡΟΘΥΡΑΙΑΣ
θυμίαμα στύρακα
συμπάσχεις ὠδῖσι καὶ εὐτοκίῃσι γέγηθας,
Εἰλείθυια, λύουσα πόνους δειναῖς ἐν ἀνάγκαις·
μούνην γάρ σε καλοῦσι λεχοί, ψυχῆς ἀνάπαυμα·
ἐν γὰρ σοὶ τοκετῶν λαθικηδέες εἰσὶν ἀνίαι.
Ἄρτεμις Εἰλείθυια, καὶ ἡ σεμνὴ Προθυραία,
κλῦθι μάκαιρα, δίδου δὲ γονὰς ἐπαρωγὸς ἐοῦσα
καὶ σῷζ’, ὥσπερ ἔφυς αἰεὶ σώτειρα προπάντων.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: II. To Prothyraia
p. 23II. To Prothyraia
fumigation from storax
you suffer with the birth-pangs and delight in easy births,
Eileithyia, releasing from labour in dread necessities;
for on you alone do women in childbed call, rest of the soul;
for in you the pangs of birth are banishers of care.
Artemis Eileithyia, and august Prothyraia,
hear, blessed one, and grant offspring, being a helper,
and save, as you were born always the saviour of all.
Socrates
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The eighty-eight Orphic Hymns and the Prayer to Musaeus, in Ancient Greek and English, with the supplied critical apparatus, explanatory notes, introduction, glossary and editorial matter.
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Orphic Hymns, attributed to Orpheus. Greek text after Eugenius Abel, Orphica (Leipzig and Prague, 1885), pages 57–102.
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