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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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II. To Prothyraia · Lines 1–7
Ancient Greek
p. 20II. ΠΡΟΘΥΡΑΙΑΣ
θυμίαμα στύρακα
Κλῦθί μοι, ὦ πολύσεμνε θεά, πολυώνυμε δαῖμον,
ὠδίνων ἐπαρωγέ, λεχῶν ἡδεῖα πρόσοψι,
θηλειῶν σώτειρα, μόνη φιλόπαις, ἀγανόφρον,
ὠκυλόχεια, παροῦσ’ ἀνίαις θνητῶν, Προθυραία,
κληδοῦχ’, εὐάντητε, φιλοτρόφε, πᾶσι προσηνές,
ἣ κατέχεις οἴκους πάντων θαλίαις τε γέγηθας,
λυσίζων’, ἀφανής, ἔργοισι δὲ φαίνῃ ἅπασι,
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: II. To Prothyraia
p. 21II. To Prothyraia
fumigation from storax
Hear me, most august goddess, daimon of many names,
helper in birth-pangs, sweet sight to women in labour,
saviour of women, alone a lover of children, gentle-minded,
swift in delivery, present in the pains of mortals, Prothyraia,
key-holder, kindly met, loving to rear, gracious to all,
you who hold the houses of all and delight in festivities,
loosener of the girdle, unseen, yet shown in all your works,
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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