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Attributed to Orpheus

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

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LII. To the God of the Trieteric Feast · Lines 8–13

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LII. ΤΡΙΕΤΗΡΙΚΟΥ

θυμίαμα ἀρώματα

βακχεύων ἁγίας τριετηρίδας ἀμφὶ τιθήνας,

ῥήξιχθον, πυριφεγγές, ἐπάφιε, κοῦρε διμῆτορ,

οὐρεσίφοιτος, Ἔρως, νεβριδοστόλος, ἀμφιέτηρε,

Παιὰν θυρσεγχής, ὑποκόλπιε, βοτρυόκοσμε,

Βάσσαρε, κισσοχαρές, πολυπάρθενε, κύδιμε κοῦρε·

ἐλθέ, μάκαρ, μύστῃσι βρύων κεχαρισμένος αἰεί.

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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: LII. To the God of the Trieteric Feast

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LII. To the God of the Trieteric Feast

fumigation from aromatics

revelling through the consecrated trieteric feasts among the foster-mothers,

earth-breaker, fire-shining, Epaphios, youth of two mothers,

mountain-roaming, Eros, clad in the fawn-skin, of the year’s circuit,

Paian, thyrsos-speared, held in the lap, adorned with the grape-cluster,

Bassaros, glad in ivy, of many maidens, glorious youth;

come, blessed one, teeming, ever welcome to the initiates.

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About This Reading Edition

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.

Historical Text and Translation

Orphic Hymns, attributed to Orpheus. Greek text after Eugenius Abel, Orphica (Leipzig and Prague, 1885), pages 57–102.

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