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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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LXIV. Hymn to Nomos · Lines 1–7
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p. 212LXIV. ΥΜΝΟΣ ΝΟΜΟΥ
Ἀθανάτων καλέω καὶ θνητῶν ἁγνὸν ἄνακτα,
οὐράνιον Νόμον, ἀστροθέτην, σφρηγῖδα δικαίην
πόντου τ’ εἰναλίου καὶ γῆς, φύσεως τὸ βέβαιον
ἀκλινὲς ἀστασίαστον ἀεὶ τηροῦντα νόμοισιν,
οἷσιν ἄνωθε φέρων μέγαν οὐρανὸν αὐτὸς ὁδεύει,
καὶ φθόνον οὐτιδανὸν ῥοίζου τρόπον ἐκτὸς ἐλαύνει·
ὃς καὶ θνητοῖσιν βιοτῆς τέλος ἐσθλὸν ἐγείρει·
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: LXIV. Hymn to Nomos
p. 213LXIV. Hymn to Nomos
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I call the holy lord of immortals and of mortals,
heavenly Nomos, setter of the stars, the just seal
of the salt sea and of earth — what is steadfast in nature,
unswerving, free of faction, keeping it always by laws,
by which, bearing the great heaven from above, he journeys himself,
and with a whistling rush drives worthless envy outside;
who rouses for mortals too a good end to life;
Socrates
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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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