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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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LXVIII. To Hygieia · Lines 8–13
Ancient Greek
p. 226LXVIII. ΥΓΕΙΑΣ
θυμίαμα μάνναν
σοῦ γὰρ ἄτερ πάντ’ ἐστὶν ἀνωφελέ’ ἀνθρώποισιν·
οὔτε γὰρ ὀλβοδότης Πλοῦτος γλυκερὸς θαλίῃσιν,
οὔτε γέρων πολύμοχθος ἄτερ σέο γίγνεται ἀνήρ·
πάντων γὰρ κρατέεις μούνη καὶ πᾶσιν ἀνάσσεις.
ἀλλά, θεά, μόλε μυστιπόλοις ἐπιτάρροθος αἰεὶ
ῥυομένη νούσων χαλεπῶν κακόποτμον ἀνίην.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: LXVIII. To Hygieia
p. 227LXVIII. To Hygieia
fumigation from manna
for apart from you all things are unprofitable to men;
for neither Ploutos giver of prosperity, sweet with festivities,
nor a man grown old and full of toil comes to be apart from you;
for you alone have power over all, and over all you reign.
But, goddess, come, a helper to the keepers of the rites always,
warding off the ill-fated grief of harsh diseases.
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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