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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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LXI. Hymn to Nemesis · Lines 7–12
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p. 204LXI. ΝΕΜΕΣΕΩΣ ΥΜΝΟΣ
ψυχὴ ὑπερφρονέουσα λόγων ἀδιακρίτῳ ὁρμῇ·
πάντ’ ἐσορᾷς καὶ πάντ’ ἐπακούεις, πάντα βραβεύεις·
ἐν σοὶ δ’ εἰσὶ δίκαι θνητῶν, πανυπέρτατε δαῖμον.
ἐλθέ, μάκαιρ’, ἁγνή, μύσταις ἐπιτάρροθος αἰεί·
δὸς δ’ ἀγαθὴν διάνοιαν ἔχειν, παύουσα πανεχθεῖς
γνώμας οὐχ ὁσίας, πανυπέρφρονας, ἀλλοπροσάλλας.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: LXI. Hymn to Nemesis
p. 205LXI. Hymn to Nemesis
(no fumigation named)
the soul that overreaches in the undiscriminating rush of words;
you look upon all, you hear all, you give judgment on all;
in you are the verdicts of mortals, most high daimon.
Come, blessed one, holy, a helper to the initiates always;
and grant us a good understanding, putting an end to all-hateful
purposes, impure, all-overweening, turning from side to side.
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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