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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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Prayer to Musaeus · Lines 12–22
Ancient Greek
p. 12ΕΥΧΗ ΠΡΟΣ ΜΟΥΣΑΙΟΝ
καὶ σύ, καταχθονίων βασιλεῦ, μέγ’ ὑπείροχε δαῖμον·
Ἥβη τ’ Εἰλείθυια καὶ Ἡρακλέος μένος ἠύ,
καὶ τὸ Δικαιοσύνης τε καὶ Εὐσεβίης μέγ’ ὄνειαρ
κικλήσκω Νύμφας τε κλυτὰς καὶ Πᾶνα μέγιστον
Ἥρην τ’, αἰγιόχοιο Διὸς θαλερὴν παράκοιτιν·
Μνημοσύνην τ’ ἐρατὴν Μούσας τ’ ἐπικέκλομαι ἁγνὰς
ἐννέα καὶ Χάριτάς τε καὶ Ὥρας ἠδ’ Ἐνιαυτὸν
Λητώ τ’ εὐπλόκαμον, Θείην, σεμνήν τε Διώνην
Κουρῆτάς τ’ ἐνόπλους Κορύβαντάς τ’ ἠδὲ Καβείρους
καὶ μεγάλους Σωτῆρας ὁμοῦ, Διὸς ἄφθιτα τέκνα,
Ἰδαίους τε θεοὺς ἠδ’ ἄγγελον οὐρανιώνων,
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: Prayer to Musaeus
p. 13Prayer to Musaeus
and you, king of those beneath the earth, greatly pre-eminent daimon;
and Hebe, Eileithyia, and the goodly strength of Herakles,
and the great boon of Dikaiosyne and of Eusebia,
I call on, and the famed Nymphs, and Pan the greatest,
and Hera, blooming consort of aegis-bearing Zeus;
and lovely Mnemosyne, and I summon the holy Mousai,
the nine, and the Charites, and the Horai, and the Year,
and Leto fair-tressed, Theia, and august Dione,
and the Kouretes in arms, the Korybantes, and the Kabeiroi,
and the great Saviours together, imperishable children of Zeus,
and the Idaian gods, and the messenger of the heavenly ones,
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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