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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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IX. To Selene · Lines 1–6
Ancient Greek
p. 42IX. ΣΕΛΗΝΗΣ
θυμίαμα ἀρώματα
Κλῦθι, θεὰ βασίλεια, φαεσφόρε, δῖα Σελήνη,
ταυρόκερως Μήνη, νυκτιδρόμος, ἠεροφοῖτι,
ἐννυχίη, δᾳδοῦχε, κόρη εὐάστερε, Μήνη,
αὐξομένη καὶ λειπομένη, θῆλύς τε καὶ ἄρσην,
αὐγάστειρα, φίλιππε, χρόνου μῆτερ, φερέκαρπε,
ἠλεκτρίς, βαρύθυμε, καταυγάστειρα, νυχαυγές,
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: IX. To Selene
p. 43IX. To Selene
fumigation from aromatics
Hear, goddess queen, light-bearing, divine Selene,
bull-horned Mene, night-running, walker in the air,
of the night, torch-bearing, fair-starred maiden, Mene,
waxing and waning, female and male,
giver of brightness, lover of horses, mother of time, fruit-bearing,
amber-gleaming, heavy-hearted, shedding light down, night-gleaming,
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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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