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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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IX. To Selene · Lines 7–12
Ancient Greek
p. 44IX. ΣΕΛΗΝΗΣ
θυμίαμα ἀρώματα
πανδερκές, φιλάγρυπνε, καλοῖς ἄστροισι βρύουσα,
ἡσυχίῃ χαίρουσα καὶ εὐφρόνῃ ὀλβιομοίρῳ,
λαμπετίη, χαριτῶπι, κερασφόρε, νυκτὸς ἄγαλμα,
ἀστράρχη, τανύπεπλ’, ἑλικοδρόμε, πάνσοφε κούρη,
ἐλθέ, μάκαιρ’, εὔφρων, εὐάστερε, φέγγεϊ τῷ σῷ
λαμπομένη, σώζουσα νέους ἱκέτας σέο, κούρη.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: IX. To Selene
p. 45IX. To Selene
fumigation from aromatics
all-seeing, lover of the vigil, teeming with fair stars,
rejoicing in quiet and in the richly-fated good night,
shining one, of gracious face, horn-bearing, glory of night,
star-ruler, long-robed, running in spirals, all-wise maiden,
come, blessed one, kindly, fair-starred, with your own radiance
shining, saving these new suppliants of yours, maiden.
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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