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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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XXIV. To the Nereids · Lines 1–6
Ancient Greek
p. 92XXIV. ΝΗΡΗΙΔΩΝ
θυμίαμα ἀρώματα
Νηρέος εἰναλίου νύμφαι καλυκώπιδες, ἁγναί,
φρικαλέαι, βύθιαι, χοροπαίγμονες, ὑγροκέλευθοι,
πεντήκοντα κόραι περὶ κύμασι βακχεύουσαι,
Τριτώνων ἐπ’ ὄχοισιν ἀγαλλόμεναι περὶ νῶτα
θηροτύποις μορφαῖς, ὧν βόσκει σώματα πόντος·
ἄλλοι θ’ οἳ ναίουσι βυθόν, Τριτώνιον οἶδμα,
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: XXIV. To the Nereids
p. 93XXIV. To the Nereids
fumigation from aromatics
Nymphs of Nereus of the sea, bud-faced, holy,
shuddering, of the depths, dance-players, watery-pathed,
fifty maidens revelling about the waves,
glorying on the Tritons' chariots, about their backs
in beast-moulded forms, whose bodies the sea feeds;
and others who dwell in the deep, the Tritonian swell,
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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