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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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V. To Aither · Lines 1–6
Ancient Greek
p. 30V. ΑΙΘΕΡΟΣ
θυμίαμα κρόκον
Ὦ Διὸς ὑψιμέλαθρον ἔχων κράτος αἰὲν ἀτειρές,
ἄστρων ἠελίου τε σεληναίης θ’ ὑπέρεισμα,
πανδαμάτορ, πυρίπνους, πᾶσι ζωοῖσιν ἔναυσμα,
ὑψιφανὴς Αἰθέρ, κόσμου στοιχεῖον ἄριστον,
ἀγλαὸν ὦ βλάστημα, σελασφόρον, ἀστεροφεγγές,
κικλήσκων λίτομαί σε κεκραμένον εὔδιον εἶναι.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: V. To Aither
p. 31V. To Aither
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O you who hold the high-roofed power of Zeus, ever unwearied,
support of the stars and of the sun and of the moon,
all-subduer, fire-breathing, kindling for all that lives,
high-shining Aither, best element of the kosmos,
O shining growth, light-bearing, star-gleaming,
calling on you I beseech you to be tempered and fair.
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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