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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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LXIII. To Dikaiosyne · Lines 1–8
Ancient Greek
p. 208LXIII. ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΥΝΗΣ
θυμίαμα λίβανον
Ὦ θνητοῖσι δικαιοτάτη, πολύολβε, ποθεινή,
ἐξ ἰσότητος ἀεὶ θνητοῖς χαίρουσα δικαίοις,
πάντιμ’, ὀλβιόμοιρε, Δικαιοσύνη μεγαλαυχές,
ἣ καθαραῖς γνώμαις αἰεὶ τὰ δέοντα βραβεύεις,
ἄθραυστος τὸ συνειδός· ἀεὶ θραύεις γὰρ ἅπαντας,
ὅσσοι μὴ τὸ σὸν ἦλθον ὑπὸ ζυγόν, ἀλλοπρόσαλλοι,
πλάστιγξι βριαρῇσι παρεγκλίναντες ἀπλήστως·
ἀστασίαστε, φίλη πάντων, φιλόκωμ’, ἐρατεινή,
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: LXIII. To Dikaiosyne
p. 209LXIII. To Dikaiosyne
fumigation from frankincense
O most just to mortals, rich in blessing, longed for,
on equal terms rejoicing always in just mortals,
all-honoured, of blessed lot, Dikaiosyne greatly exalted,
who by undefiled purposes always award what is due,
unbroken in conscience — for you break them all always,
who have not come beneath your yoke, the shifting ones,
tilting aside insatiably with the heavy scale-pans;
free of faction, dear to all, lover of revel, lovely,
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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