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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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XXVIII. To Hermes · Lines 7–12
Ancient Greek
p. 106XXVIII. ΕΡΜΟΥ
θυμίαμα λίβανον
ὃς χείρεσσιν ἔχεις εἰρήνης ὅπλον ἀμεμφές,
Κωρυκιῶτα, μάκαρ, ἐριούνιε, ποικιλόμυθε,
ἐργασίαις ἐπαρωγέ, φίλε θνητοῖς ἐν ἀνάγκαις,
γλώσσης δεινὸν ὅπλον, τὸ σεβάσμιον ἀνθρώποισι·
κλῦθί μευ εὐχομένου, βιότου τέλος ἐσθλὸν ὀπάζων
ἐργασίῃσι, λόγου χάρισιν καὶ μνημοσύνῃσιν.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: XXVIII. To Hermes
p. 107XXVIII. To Hermes
fumigation from frankincense
you who hold in your hands the blameless weapon of peace,
of Korykos, blessed one, luck-bringing, of intricate speech,
helper in works, dear to mortals in their necessities,
dread weapon of the tongue, the thing revered among men;
hear me as I pray, granting a good end to life
in works, in the graces of the word, and in remembrances.
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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