The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns

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Author: Attributed to Orpheus

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LXXVIII. ΗΟΥΣ

θυμίαμα μάνναν

Κλῦθι, θεά, θνητοῖς φαεσίμβροτον ἦμαρ ἄγουσα,

Ἠοῖ λαμπροφαής, ἐρυθαινομένη κατὰ κόσμον,

ἀγγελίεια θεοῦ μεγάλου Τιτῆνος ἀγανοῦ,

ἣ νυκτὸς ζοφόεντα κελαινόχρωτα πορείην

ἀντολίαις ταῖς σαῖς πέμπεις ὑπὸ νέρτερα γαίης·

ἔργων ἡγήτειρα, βίου πρόπολε θνητοῖσιν·

ᾗ χαίρει θνητῶν μερόπων γένος· οὐδέ τίς ἐστιν,

The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: LXXVIII. To Eos

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LXXVIII. To Eos

fumigation from manna

Hear, goddess, who bring to mortals the day that shines on mortals,

Eos of bright shining, reddening across the kosmos,

messenger of the great god, the gentle Titan,

you who the dusky, black-skinned journeying of night

send by your risings down beneath the underparts of earth;

leader of works, attendant of life, for mortals;

in whom the race of speaking mortals rejoices; nor is there one

3.Three hands in one line. The codices read θεοῦ τιτάνος ἀγανοῦ μεγάλοιο; Dinner reordered it to θεοῦ μεγάλου Τιτῆνος ἀγανοῦ, and Abel notes in the same entry that the form Τιτῆνος is Hermann's, written for τιτᾶνος. Before both of these Abel prints a bare query of his own on the first word of the line, αγγελιῶτι? — and he prints it, as the image shows at 2.8×, with a bare alpha carrying no breathing, where the verse's own ἀγγελίεια three lines above has its smooth breathing plain at the same magnification and his other interrogative entry εὐιέροις? has one too. The dropped sort is recorded here and not adopted. What the query proposes is not stated: αγγελιῶτι is a dative, and how it is meant to stand in a line whose ἀγγελίεια is nominative Abel does not say. The line as printed is the work of two editors — Dinner's order and Hermann's form — with a third suggestion appended and not taken. Which Titan is meant the hymn does not say: Eos is daughter of Hyperion and sister of Helios, and messenger of the great god fits either. Naming him is construal, and the edition does not.

4.And three more here. ζοφόεντα is Hermann's for the codices' ζοφερήν τε; κελαινόχρωτα is Abel's accentuation of their κελαινοχρῶτα; and between the two Abel prints a second query in his own voice — An ζοφερήν τε κελαινόχροόν τε scribendum?, should one write ζοφερήν τε κελαινόχροόν τε? — which would restore the manuscripts' first word and change the second instead. He offers it and does not take it. The English follows the printed text.

2, 12.Three entries in this hymn are Abel's own. At 2 the codices give the nominative Ἠώς and he prints the vocative Ἠοῖ, using the form codd., corr. Abel rather than his usual bracket; at 4 κελαινόχρωτα is his re-accentuation of their κελαινοχρῶτα; at 12 he prints πᾶσι for the codices' πάντα, making the dative answer θνητοῖσι in the same line. None is a large change, and all three are recorded here because the edition's rule is that a conjecture is named wherever it stands.

About This Reading Edition

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.

Historical Text and Translation

Orphic Hymns, attributed to Orpheus. Greek text after Eugenius Abel, Orphica (Leipzig and Prague, 1885), pages 57–102.

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