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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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LXVI. To Hephaistos · Lines 8–13
Ancient Greek
p. 220LXVI. ΗΦΑΙΣΤΟΥ
θυμίαμα λιβανομάνναν
πάντα δὲ οἶκον ἔχεις, πᾶσαν πόλιν, ἔθνεα πάντα,
σώματά τε θνητῶν οἰκεῖς, πολύολβε, κραταιέ.
κλῦθι, μάκαρ, κλῄζω σε πρὸς εὐιέρους ἐπιλοιβάς,
αἰὲν ὅπως χαίρουσιν ἐπ’ ἔργοις ἥμερος ἔλθῃς.
παῦσον λυσσῶσαν μανίην πυρὸς ἀκαμάτοιο
καῦσιν ἔχων φύσεως ἐν σώμασιν ἡμετέροισιν.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: LXVI. To Hephaistos
p. 221LXVI. To Hephaistos
fumigation from frankincense-manna
Every house you hold, every city, all the nations,
and you dwell in the bodies of mortals, rich in blessing, mighty.
Hear, blessed one; I call you to the well-hallowed libations,
that you may come always gentle to those who rejoice in their works.
Stop the raging madness of the unwearying fire,
keeping the burning of nature within our bodies.
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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