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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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XXII. To the Sea · Lines 1–10
Ancient Greek
p. 88XXII. ΘΑΛΑΣΣΗΣ
θυμίαμα λιβανομάνναν
Ὠκεανοῦ καλέω νύμφην, γλαυκώπιδα Τηθύν,
κυανόπεπλον ἄνασσαν, εὔτροχα κυμαίνουσαν,
αὔραις ἡδυπνόοισι πατασσομένην περὶ γαῖαν,
θραύουσ’ αἰγιαλοῖσι πέτρῃσί τε κύματα μακρά,
εὐδίοις ἁπαλοῖσι γαληνιόωσα δρόμοισι,
νηυσὶν ἀγαλλομένη, θηροτρόφος, ὑγροκέλευθε,
μῆτερ μὲν Κύπριδος, μῆτερ νεφέων ἐρεβεννῶν
καὶ πάσης πηγῆς νυμφῶν νασμοῖσι βρυούσης·
κλῦθί μευ, ὦ πολύσεμνε, καὶ εὐμενέουσ’ ἐπαρήγοις,
εὐθυδρόμοις οὖρον νηυσὶν πέμπουσα, μάκαιρα.
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: XXII. To the Sea
p. 89XXII. To the Sea
fumigation from frankincense-manna
I call the bride of Okeanos, grey-eyed Tethys,
dark-robed queen, swelling in fair-running waves,
struck by sweet-breathing breezes about the earth,
breaking your long waves on the beaches and the rocks,
growing calm again in soft and fair-weather courses,
glorying in ships, nurse of beasts, watery-pathed,
mother of Kypris, and mother of the dark clouds,
and of every spring that teems with the streams of nymphs;
hear me, most august, and come with favour to my help,
sending a following wind to straight-running ships, blessed one.
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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