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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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XI. To Pan · Lines 9–16
Ancient Greek
p. 54XI. ΠΑΝΟΣ
θυμίαμα ποικίλα
εὔσκοπε, θηρητήρ, Ἠχοῦς φίλε, σύγχορε νυμφῶν,
παντοφυές, γενέτορ πάντων, πολυώνυμε δαῖμον,
κοσμοκράτωρ, αὐξητά, φαεσφόρε, κάρπιμε Παιάν,
ἀντροχαρές, βαρύμηνις, ἀληθὴς Ζεὺς ὁ κεράστης.
σοὶ γὰρ ἀπειρέσιον γαίης πέδον ἐστήρικται,
εἴκει δ’ ἀκαμάτου πόντου τὸ βαθύρροον ὕδωρ
Ὠκεανός τε πέριξ ἐνὶ ὕδασι γαῖαν ἑλίσσων,
ἠέριόν τε μέρισμα τροφῆς, ζωοῖσιν ἔναυσμα,
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: XI. To Pan
p. 55XI. To Pan
fumigation from various substances
keen-eyed, hunter, friend of Echo, dancing with the nymphs,
of every growth, begetter of all, daimon of many names,
world-ruler, increaser, light-bearing, fruitful Paian,
delighting in caves, heavy in wrath, the true horned Zeus.
For upon you the boundless floor of the earth is set fast,
and the deep-flowing water of the untiring sea gives way,
and Okeanos, who rolls the earth about in his waters,
and the airy portion of nourishment, kindling for living things,
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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