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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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VII. To the Stars · Lines 8–13
Ancient Greek
p. 36VII. ΑΣΤΡΩΝ
θυμίαμα ἀρώματα
ἑπταφαεῖς ζώνας ἐφορώμενοι, ἠερόπλαγκτοι,
οὐράνιοι χθόνιοί τε, πυρίδρομοι, αἰὲν ἀτειρεῖς,
αὐγάζοντες ἀεὶ νυκτὸς ζοφοειδέα πέπλον,
μαρμαρυγαῖς στίλβοντες, εὔφρονες ἐννύχιοί τε·
ἔλθοιτ’ ἐπ’ εὐιέρου τελετῆς πολυΐστορας ἄθλους
ἐσθλὸν ἐπ’ εὐδόξοις ἔργοις δρόμον ἐκτελέοντες.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: VII. To the Stars
p. 37VII. To the Stars
fumigation from aromatics
overseeing the seven shining zones, roaming the air,
of heaven and of earth, fire-coursing, ever unwearied,
for ever lighting the gloom-shaped robe of night,
glittering with flashes, kindly, and of the night;
may you come to the much-learned labours of the well-hallowed rite
accomplishing a noble course for works of good repute.
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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