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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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LVI. To Adonis · Lines 7–12
Ancient Greek
p. 188LVI. ΑΔΩΝΙΔΟΣ
θυμίαμα ἀρώματα
ἀγλαόμορφε, κυνηγεσίαις χαίρων, βαθυχαῖτα,
ἱμερόνους, Κύπριδος γλυκερὸν θάλος, ἔρνος ἔρωτος,
Φερσεφόνης ἐρασιπλοκάμου λέκτροισι λοχευθείς,
ὃς ποτὲ μὲν ναίεις ὑπὸ Τάρταρον ἠερόεντα,
ἠδὲ πάλιν πρὸς Ὄλυμπον ἄγεις δέμας ὡριόκαρπον·
ἐλθέ, μάκαρ, μύστῃσι φέρων καρποὺς ἀπὸ γαίης.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: LVI. To Adonis
p. 189LVI. To Adonis
fumigation from aromatics
of splendid form, rejoicing in the hunt, deep-haired,
of longing mind, sweet shoot of the Kyprian, scion of desire,
brought to birth in the bed of lovely-tressed Phersephone,
who at one time dwell beneath murky Tartaros,
and at another bring your season-ripened body to Olympos;
come, blessed one, bringing the initiates fruits from the earth.
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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