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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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LXXXVIII. To Ares · Lines 10–17
Ancient Greek
p. 282LXXXVIII. ΕΙΣ ΑΡΕΑ
πρηῢ καταστίλβων σέλας ὑψόθεν ἐς βιότητα
ἡμετέρην, καὶ κάρτος ἀρήιον, ὡς κε δυναίμην
σεύεσθαι κακότητα πικρὴν ἀπ’ ἐμοῖο καρήνου
καὶ ψυχῆς ἀπατηλὸν ὑπογνάμψαι φρεσὶν ὁρμὴν
θυμοῦ τ’ αὖ μένος ὀξὺ κατισχέμεν, ὅς μ’ ἐρέθῃσι
φυλόπιδος κρυερῆς ἐπιβαινέμεν. ἀλλὰ σὺ θάρσος
δός, μάκαρ, εἰρήνης τε μένειν ἐν ἀπήμοσι θεσμοῖς
δυσμενέων προφυγόντα μόθον κῆράς τε βιαίους.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: LXXXVIII. To Ares
p. 283LXXXVIII. To Ares
(no fumigation named)
shedding gently from on high your gleam upon our
life, and warlike strength, that I may be able
to drive bitter cowardice away from my head
and to bend down in my heart the soul's deceiving impulse,
and to hold in the sharp force of spirit that provokes me
to enter the chilling strife. But do you grant me courage,
blessed one, and to remain within the harmless statutes of peace,
escaping the battle-press of enemies and the violent dooms.
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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