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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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Introduction · Part 2
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: Introduction
p. 3— XVIII. Abel heads it To Plouton. The manuscripts head it εἰς Τυφῶνα, to Typhon. The god addressed is named Πλούτων at line 4, so Abel is surely right; but the transmitted title is what the tradition carried.
— XIX. Abel heads it Of Zeus of the Thunderbolt. The manuscripts head it Κεραυνοῦ, Of the Thunderbolt — no Zeus. On the transmitted title the addressee is the weapon.
Two editors between them account for nearly two-thirds of everything in the apparatus: Hermann, whose 1805 Orphica was the first with a critical apparatus, with 260 readings, and Abel himself with 132. Third, with 36, is a man this edition can name only as Abel names him.
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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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