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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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XI. To Pan · Lines 17–23
Ancient Greek
p. 56XI. ΠΑΝΟΣ
θυμίαμα ποικίλα
καὶ κορυφῆς ἐφύπερθεν ἐλαφροτάτου πυρὸς ὄμμα.
βαίνει γὰρ τάδε ῥεῖα πολύκριτα σῇσιν ἐφετμαῖς·
ἀλλάσσεις δὲ φύσεις πάντων ταῖς σῇσι προνοίαις
βόσκων ἀνθρώπων γενεὴν κατ’ ἀπείρονα κόσμον.
ἀλλά, μάκαρ, βακχευτά, φιλένθεε, βαῖν’ ἐπὶ λοιβαῖς
εὐιέροις, ἀγαθὴν δ’ ὄπασον βιότοιο τελευτὴν
Πανικὸν ἐκπέμπων οἶστρον ἐπὶ τέρματα γαίης.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: XI. To Pan
p. 57XI. To Pan
fumigation from various substances
and above the summit the eye of the lightest fire.
For these things, so widely diverse, go easily at your commands;
and you change the natures of all by your providences,
feeding the race of men throughout the boundless kosmos.
But, blessed one, reveller, filled with the god, come to the libations
well-hallowed, and grant a good end to life,
sending the Panic frenzy away to the ends of the earth.
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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