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The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns
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LI. To the Nymphs · Lines 1–9
Ancient Greek
p. 168LI. ΝΥΜΦΩΝ
θυμίαμα ἀρώματα
Νύμφαι, θυγατέρες μεγακήτεος Ὠκεανοῖο,
ὑγροπόροις γαίης ὑπὸ κεύθεσιν οἰκί’ ἔχουσαι,
κρυψίδομοι, Βάκχοιο τροφοί, χθόνιαι, πολυγηθεῖς,
καρποτρόφοι, λειμωνιάδες, σκολιόδρομοι, ἁγναί,
ἀντροχαρεῖς, σπήλυγξι κεχαρμέναι, ἠερόφοιτοι,
πηγαῖαι, δρομάδες, δροσοείμονες, ἴχνεσι κοῦφαι,
φαινόμεναι, ἀφανεῖς, αὐλωνιάδες, πολυανθεῖς,
σὺν Πανὶ σκιρτῶσαι ἀν’ οὔρεα, εὐάστειραι,
πετρόρρυτοι, λιγυραί, βομβήτριαι, οὐρεσίφοιτοι,
The Orphic Collection, Volume I: The Hymns: LI. To the Nymphs
p. 169LI. To the Nymphs
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Nymphs, daughters of great-gulfed Okeanos,
who keep your dwellings in the water-coursed hollows beneath the earth,
of hidden houses, nurses of Bakchos, of the earth, full of gladness,
fruit-nourishing, of the meadows, winding in your courses, holy,
glad in caves, rejoicing in caverns, walkers in the mist,
of the springs, runners, dew-clad, light of foot,
manifest, unseen, of the glens, rich in flowers,
leaping with Pan over the mountains, criers of euhoi,
flowing from the rock, clear-voiced, humming, mountain-roaming,
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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