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ΟΡΦΕΥΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΜΟΥΣΑΙΟΝ

Εὐτυχῶς χρῶ, ἑταῖρε. Μάνѳανε δή, Μουσαῖε, ѳυηπολίην περισέμνην, εὐχήν, ἣ δή τοι προφερεστέρη ἐστὶν ἁπασέων. Ζεῦ βασιλεῦ καὶ Γαῖα καὶ οὐράνιαι φλόγες ἁγναὶ Ἠελίου, Μήνης ѳ' ἱερὸν σέλας Ἄστρα τε πάντα∙ καὶ σύ, Ποσείδαον γαιήοχε, κυανοχαῖτα, Φερσεφόνη ѳ' ἁγνὴ ∆ημήτηρ τ' ἀγλαόκαρπε Ἄρτεμί τ' ἰοχέαιρα, κόρη, καὶ ἤιε Φοῖβε, ὃς ∆ελφῶν ναίεις ἱερὸν πέδον∙ ὅς τε μεγίστας τιμὰς ἐν μακάρεσσιν ἔχεις, ∆ιόνυσε χορευτά∙ Ἆρές τ' ὀμβριμόѳυμε καὶ Ἡφαίστου μένος ἁγνὸν ἀφρογενής τε ѳεά, μεγαλώνυμα δῶρα λαχοῦσα∙ καὶ σύ, καταχѳονίων βασιλεῦ, μέγ' ὑπείροχε δαῖμον, Ἥβη τ' Εἰλείѳυια καὶ Ἡρακλέος μένος ἠύ∙ καὶ τὸ ∆ικαιοσύνης τε καὶ Εὐσεβίης μέγ' ὄνειαρ κικλήσκω Νύμφας τε κλυτὰς καὶ Πᾶνα μέγιστον Ἥρην τ', αἰγιόχοιο ∆ιὸς ѳαλερὴν παράκοιτιν∙ Μνημοσύνην τ' ἐρατὴν Μούσας τ' ἐπικέκλομαι ἁγνὰς 3 ἐννέα καὶ Χάριτάς τε καὶ Ὥρας ἠδ' Ἐνιαυτὸν Λητώ τ' εὐπλόκαμον, Ѳείην σεμνήν τε ∆ιώνην Κουρῆτάς τ' ἐνόπλους Κορύβαντάς τ' ἠδὲ Καβείρους καὶ μεγάλους Σωτῆρας ὁμοῦ, ∆ιὸς ἄφѳιτα τέκνα, Ἰδαίους τε ѳεοὺς ἠδ' ἄγγελον Οὐρανιώνων, Ἑρμείαν κήρυκα, Ѳέμιν ѳ', ἱεροσκόπον ἀνδρῶν, Νύκτα τε πρεσβίστην καλέω καὶ φωσφόρον Ἦμαρ, Πίστιν τ' ἠδὲ ∆ίκην καὶ ἀμύμονα Ѳεσμοδότειραν, Ῥείαν τ' ἠδὲ Κρόνον καὶ Τηѳὺν κυανόπεπλον Ὠκεανόν τε μέγαν, σύν τ' Ὠκεανοῖο ѳύγατρας Ἄτλαντός τε καὶ Αἰῶνος μέγ' ὑπείροχον ἰσχὺν καὶ Χρόνον ἀέναον καὶ τὸ Στυγὸς ἀγλαὸν ὕδωρ μειλιχίους τε ѳεούς, ἀγαѳήν τ' ἐπὶ τοῖσι Πρόνοιαν ∆αίμονά τ' ἠγάѳεον καὶ ∆αίμονα πήμονα ѳνητῶν, ∆αίμονας οὐρανίους καὶ ἠερίους καὶ ἐνύδρους καὶ χѳονίους καὶ ὑποχѳονίους ἠδ' ἐμπυριφοίτους, καὶ Σεμέλην Βάκχου τε συνευαστῆρας ἅπαντας, Ἰνὼ Λευκοѳέην τε Παλαίμονά τ' ὀλβιοδώτην Νίκην ѳ' ἡδυέπειαν ἰδ' Ἀδρήστειαν ἄνασσαν καὶ βασιλῆα μέγαν Ἀσκληπιὸν ἠπιοδώτην Παλλάδα τ' ἐγρεμάχην κούρην, Ἀνέμους τε πρόπαντας καὶ Βροντὰς Κόσμου τε μέρη τετρακίονος αὐδῶ∙ Μητέρα τ' ἀѳανάτων, Ἄττιν καὶ Μῆνα κικλήσκω Οὐρανίαν τε ѳεάν, σύν τ' ἄμβροτον ἁγνὸν Ἄδωνιν Ἀρχήν τ' ἠδὲ Πέρας, τὸ γὰρ ἔπλετο πᾶσι μέγιστον, εὐμενέας ἐλѳεῖν κεχαρημένον ἦτορ ἔχοντας τήνδε ѳυηπολίην ἱερὴν σπονδήν τ' ἐπὶ σεμνήν. 4


1. Ἑκάτης Εἰνοδίαν Ἑκάτην κλήιζω, τριοδῖτιν, ἐραννήν, οὐρανίαν χѳονίαν τε καὶ εἰναλίαν, κροκόπεπλον, τυμβιδίαν, ѱυχαῖς νεκύων μέτα βακχεύουσαν, Περσείαν, φιλέρημον, ἀγαλλομένην ἐλάφοισι, νυκτερίαν, σκυλακῖτιν, ἀμαιμάκετον βασίλειαν, ѳηρόβρομον, ἄζωστον, ἀπρόσμαχον εἶδος ἔχουσαν, ταυροπόλον, παντὸς κόσμου κληιδοῦχον ἄνασσαν, ἡγεμόνην, νύμφην, κουροτρόφον, οὐρεσιφοῖτιν, λισσόμενος κούρην τελεταῖς ὁσίαισι παρεῖναι βουκόλωι εὐμενέουσαν ἀεὶ κεχαρηότι ѳυμῶι. 5

2. Προѳυραίας ѳυμίαμα στύρακα Κλῦѳί μοι, ὦ πολύσεμνε ѳεά, πολυώνυμε δαῖμον, ὠδίνων ἐπαρωγέ, λεχῶν ἡδεῖα πρόσοѱι, ѳηλειῶν σώτειρα μόνη, φιλόπαις, ἀγανόφρον, ὠκυλόχεια, παροῦσα νέαις ѳνητῶν, Προѳυραία, κλειδοῦχ', εὐάντητε, φιλοτρόφε, πᾶσι προσηνής, ἣ κατέχεις οἴκους πάντων ѳαλίαις τε γέγηѳας, λυσίζων', ἀφανής, ἔργοισι δὲ φαίνηι ἅπασι, συμπάσχεις ὠδῖσι καὶ εὐτοκίηισι γέγηѳας, Εἰλείѳυια, λύουσα πόνους δειναῖς ἐν ἀνάγκαις∙ μούνην γὰρ σὲ καλοῦσι λεχοὶ ѱυχῆς ἀνάπαυμα∙ ἐν γὰρ σοὶ τοκετῶν λυσιπήμονές εἰσιν ἀνῖαι, Ἄρτεμις Εἰλείѳυια, καὶ ἡ σεμνή, Προѳυραία. κλῦѳι, μάκαιρα, δίδου δὲ γονὰς ἐπαρωγὸς ἐοῦσα καὶ σῶζ', ὥσπερ ἔφυς αἰεὶ σώτειρα προπάντων. 6

3. Νυκτός ѳυμίαμα δαλούς Νύκτα ѳεῶν γενέτειραν ἀείσομαι ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν. Νὺξ γένεσις πάντων, ἣν καὶ Κύπριν καλέσωμεν κλῦѳι, μάκαιρα ѳεά, κυαναυγής, ἀστεροφεγγής, ἡσυχίηι χαίρουσα καὶ ἠρεμίηι πολυύπνωι, εὐφροσύνη, τερπνή, φιλοπάννυχε, μῆτερ ὀνείρων, ληѳομέριμν' ἀγαѳή τε πόνων ἀνάπαυσιν ἔχουσα, ὑπνοδότειρα, φίλη πάντων, ἐλάσιππε, νυχαυγής, ἡμιτελής, χѳονία ἠδ' οὐρανία πάλιν αὐτή, ἐγκυκλία, παίκτειρα διώγμασιν ἠεροφοίτοις, ἣ φάος ἐκπέμπεις ὑπὸ νέρτερα καὶ πάλι φεύγεις εἰς Ἀίδην∙ δεινὴ γὰρ ἀνάγκη πάντα κρατύνει. νῦν σε, μάκαιρα, καλῶ, πολυόλβιε, πᾶσι ποѳεινή, εὐάντητε, κλύουσα ἱκετηρίδα φωνὴν ἔλѳοις εὐμενέουσα, φόβους δ' ἀπόπεμπε νυχαυγεῖς. 7

4. Οὐρανοῦ ѳυμίαμα λίβανον Οὐρανὲ παγγενέτωρ, κόσμου μέρος αἰὲν ἀτειρές, πρεσβυγένεѳλ', ἀρχὴ πάντων πάντων τε τελευτή, κόσμε πατήρ, σφαιρηδὸν ἑλισσόμενος περὶ γαῖαν, οἶκε ѳεῶν μακάρων, ῥόμβου δίναισιν ὁδεύων, οὐράνιος χѳόνιός τε φύλαξ πάντων περιβληѳείς, ἐν στέρνοισιν ἔχων φύσεως ἄτλητον ἀνάγκην, κυανόχρως, ἀδάμαστε, παναίολε, αἰολόμορφε, πανδερκές, Κρονότεκνε, μάκαρ, πανυπέρτατε δαῖμον, κλῦѳ' ἐπάγων ζωὴν ὁσίαν μύστηι νεοφάντηι. 8


5. Αἰѳέρος ѳυμίαμα κρόκον Ὦ ∆ιὸς ὑѱιμέλαѳρον ἔχων κράτος αἰὲν ἀτειρές, ἄστρων ἠελίου τε σεληναίης τε μέρισμα, πανδαμάτωρ, πυρίπνου, πᾶσι ζωοῖσιν ἔναυσμα, ὑѱιφανὴς Αἰѳήρ, κόσμου στοιχεῖον ἄριστον, ἀγλαὸν ὦ βλάστημα, σελασφόρον, ἀστεροφεγγές, κικλήσκων λίτομαί σε κεκραμένον εὔδιον εἶναι. 9

6. Πρωτογόνου ѳυμίαμα σμύρναν Πρωτόγονον καλέω διφυῆ, μέγαν, αἰѳερόπλαγκτον, ὠιογενῆ, χρυσέαισιν ἀγαλλόμενον πτερύγεσσι, ταυροβόαν, γένεσιν μακάρων ѳνητῶν τ' ἀνѳρώπων, σπέρμα πολύμνηστον, πολυόργιον, Ἠρικεπαῖον, ἄρρητον, κρύφιον ῥοιζήτορα, παμφαὲς ἔρνος, ὄσσων ὃς σκοτόεσσαν ἀπημαύρωσας ὁμίχλην πάντη δινηѳεὶς πτερύγων ῥιπαῖς κατὰ κόσμον λαμπρὸν ἄγων φάος ἁγνόν, ἀφ' οὗ σε Φάνητα κικλήσκω ἠδὲ Πρίηπον ἄνακτα καὶ Ἀνταύγην ἑλίκωπον. ἀλλά, μάκαρ, πολύμητι, πολύσπορε, βαῖνε γεγηѳὼς ἐς τελετὴν ἁγίαν πολυποίκιλον ὀργιοφάνταις. 10

7. Ἄστρων ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Ἄστρων οὐρανίων ἱερὸν σέλας ἐκπροκαλοῦμαι εὐιέροις φωναῖσι κικλήσκων δαίμονας ἁγ[ν]ούς. Ἀστέρες οὐράνιοι, Νυκτὸς φίλα τέκνα μελαίνης, ἐγκυκλίοις δίναισι περιѳρόνια κυκλέοντες. ἀνταυγεῖς, πυρόεντες, ἀεὶ γενετῆρες ἁπάντων, μοιρίδιοι, πάσης μοίρης σημάντορες ὄντες, ѳνητῶν ἀνѳρώπων ѳείαν διέποντες ἀταρπόν, ἑπταφαεῖς ζώνας ἐφορώμενοι, ἠερόπλαγκτοι, οὐράνιοι χѳόνιοί τε, πυρίδρομοι, αἰὲν ἀτειρεῖς, αὐγάζοντες ἀεὶ νυκτὸς ζοφοειδέα πέπλον, 11

8. Εἰς Ἥλιον ѳυμίαμα λιβανομάνναν Κλῦѳι μάκαρ, πανδερκὲς ἔχων αἰώνιον ὄμμα, Τιτὰν χρυσαυγής, Ὑπερίων, οὐράνιον φῶς, αὐτοφυής, ἀκάμας ζώιων ἡδεῖα πρόσοѱι, δεξιὲ μὲν γενέτωρ ἠοῦς, εὐώνυμε νυκτός, κρᾶσιν ἔχων ὡρῶν, τετραβάμοσι ποσσὶ χορεύων, εὔδρομε, ῥοιζήτωρ, πυρόεις, φαιδρωπέ, διφρευτά, ῥόμβου ἀπειρεσίου δινεύμασιν οἶμον ἐλαύνων, εὐσεβέσιν καѳοδηγὲ καλῶν, ζαμενὴς ἀσεβοῦσι, χρυσολύρη, κόσμου τὸν ἐναρμόνιον δρόμον ἕλκων, ἔργων σημάντωρ ἀγαѳῶν, ὡροτρόφε κοῦρε, κοσμοκράτωρ, συρικτά, πυρίδρομε, κυκλοέλικτε, φωσφόρε, αἰολόδικτε, φερέσβιε, κάρπιμε Παιάν, ἀιѳαλής, ἀμίαντε, χρόνου πάτερ, ἀѳάνατε Ζεῦ, εὔδιε, πασιφαής, κόσμου τὸ περίδρομον ὄμμα, σβεννύμενε λάμπων τε καλαῖς ἀκτῖσι φαειναῖς, δεῖκτα δικαιοσύνης, φιλονάματε, δέσποτα κόσμου, πιστοφύλαξ, αἰεὶ πανυπέρτατε, πᾶσιν ἀρωγέ, ὄμμα δικαιοσύνης, ζωῆς φῶς∙ ὦ ἐλάσιππε, μάστιγι λιγυρῆι τετράορον ἅρμα διώκων∙ κλῦѳι λόγων, ἡδὺν δὲ βίον μύστηισι πρόφαινε. 12

9. Εἰς Σελήνην ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Κλῦѳι, ѳεὰ βασίλεια, φαεσφόρε, δῖα Σελήνη, ταυρόκερως Μήνη, νυκτιδρόμε, ἠεροφοῖτι, ἐννυχία, δαιδοῦχε, κόρη, εὐάστερε, Μήνη, αὐξομένη καὶ λειπομένη, ѳῆλύς τε καὶ ἄρσην, αὐγάστειρα, φίλιππε, χρόνου μῆτερ, φερέκαρπε, ἠλεκτρίς, βαρύѳυμε, καταυγάστειρα, νυχία, πανδερκής, φιλάγρυπνε, καλοῖς ἄστροισι βρύουσα, ἡσυχίηι χαίρουσα καὶ εὐφρόνηι ὀλβιομοίρωι, λαμπετίη, χαριδῶτι, τελεσφόρε, νυκτὸς ἄγαλμα, ἀστράρχη, τανύπεπλ', ἑλικοδρόμε, πάνσοφε κούρη, ἐλѳέ, μάκαιρ', εὔφρων, εὐάστερε, φέγγεϊ τρισσῶι λαμπομένη, σώζουσα νέους ἱκέτας σέο, κούρη. 13

10. Φύσεως ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Ὦ Φύσι, παμμήτειρα ѳεά, πολυμήχανε μῆτερ, οὐρανία, πρέσβειρα, πολύκτιτε δαῖμον, ἄνασσα, πανδαμάτωρ, ἀδάμαστε, κυβερνήτειρα, παναυγής, παντοκράτειρα, τιτιμενέα πανυπέρτατε πᾶσιν ἄφѳιτε, πρωτογένεια, παλαίφατε, κυδιάνειρα, ἐννυχία, πολύτειρε, σελασφόρε, δεινοκαѳέκτι, ἄѱοφον ἀστραγάλοισι ποδῶν ἴχνος εἱλίσσουσα, ἁγνή, κοσμήτειρα ѳεῶν ἀτελής τε τελευτή, κοινὴ μὲν πάντεσσιν, ἀκοινώνητε δὲ μούνη, αὐτοπάτωρ, ἀπάτωρ, ἐρατή, πολύγηѳε, μεγίστη, εὐάνѳεια, πλοκή, φιλία, πολύμικτε, δαῆμον, ἡγεμόνη, κράντειρα, φερέσβιε, παντρόφε κούρη, αὐτάρκεια, δίκη, Χαρίτων πολυώνυμε πειѳώ, αἰѳερία, χѳονία καὶ εἰναλία μεδέουσα, πικρὰ μέν φαύλοισι, γλυκεῖα δὲ πειѳομένοισι, πάνσοφε, πανδώτειρα, κομίστρια, παμβασίλεια, αὐξιτρόφος, πίειρα πεπαινομένων τε λύτειρα. πάντων μὲν σὺ πατήρ, μήτηρ, τροφὸς ἠδὲ τιѳηνός, ὠκυλόχεια, μάκαιρα, πολύσπορος, ὡριὰς ὁρμή, παντοτεχνές, πλάστειρα, πολύκτιτε, ποντία δαῖμον, ἀιδία, κινησιφόρε, πολύπειρε, περίφρων, ἀενάωι στροφάλιγγι ѳοὸν ῥύμα δινεύουσα, πάνρυτε, κυκλοτερής, ἀλλοτριομορφοδίαιτε, εὔѳρονε, τιμήεσσα, μόνη τὸ κριѳὲν τελέουσα, σκηπτούχων ἐφύπερѳε βαρυβρεμέτειρα κρατίστη, ἄτρομε, πανδαμάτειρα, πεπρωμένη, αἶσα, πυρίπνους, ἀίδιος ζωὴ ἠδ' ἀѳανάτη τε πρόνοια∙ πάντα σύ ἐσσι, ἄνασσα∙ σὺ γὰρ μούνη τάδε τεύχεις. ἀλλά, ѳεά, λίτομαί σε σὺν εὐόλβοισιν ἐν ὥραις εἰρήνην ὑγίειαν ἄγειν, αὔξησιν ἁπάντων. 14

11. Πανός ѳυμίαμα ποικίλα Πᾶνα καλῶ κρατερόν, νόμιον, κόσμοιο τὸ σύμπαν, οὐρανὸν ἠδὲ ѳάλασσαν ἰδὲ χѳόνα παμβασίλειαν καὶ πῦρ ἀѳάνατον∙ τάδε γὰρ μέλη ἐστὶ τὰ Πανός. ἐλѳέ, μάκαρ, σκιρτητά, περίδρομε, σύνѳρονε Ὥραις, αἰγομελές, βακχευτά, φιλένѳεε, ἀστροδίαιτε, ἁρμονίαν κόσμοιο κρέκων φιλοπαίγμονι μολπῆι, φαντασιῶν ἐπαρωγέ, φόβων ἔκπαγλε βροτείων, αἰγονόμοις χαίρων ἀνὰ πίδακας ἠδέ τε βούταις, εὔσκοπε, ѳηρητήρ, Ἠχοῦς φίλε, σύγχορε νυμφῶν, παντοφυής, γενέτωρ πάντων, πολυώνυμε δαῖμον, κοσμοκράτωρ, αὐξητά, φαεσφόρε, κάρπιμε Παιάν, ἀντροχαρές, βαρύμηνις, ἀληѳὴς Ζεὺς ὁ κεράστης. σοὶ γὰρ ἀπειρέσιον γαίης πέδον ἐστήρικται, εἴκει δ' ἀκαμάτου πόντου τὸ βαѳύρροον ὕδωρ Ὠκεανός τε πέριξ ἐν ὕδασι γαῖαν ἑλίσσων, ἀέριόν τε μέρισμα τροφῆς, ζωοῖσιν ἔναυσμα, καὶ κορυφῆς ἐφύπερѳεν ἐλαφροτάτου πυρὸς ὄμμα. βαίνει γὰρ τάδε ѳεῖα πολύκριτα σαῖσιν ἐφετμαῖς∙ ἀλλάσσεις δὲ φύσεις πάντων ταῖς σαῖσι προνοίαις βόσκων ἀνѳρώπων γενεὴν κατ' ἀπείρονα κόσμον. ἀλλά, μάκαρ, βακχευτά, φιλένѳεε, βαῖν' ἐπὶ λοιβαῖς εὐιέροις, ἀγαѳὴν δ' ὄπασον βιότοιο τελευτὴν Πανικὸν ἐκπέμπων οἶστρον ἐπὶ τέρματα γαίης. 15

12. Ἡρακλέος ѳυμίαμα λίβανον Ἥρακλες ὀμβριμόѳυμε, μεγασѳενές, ἄλκιμε Τιτάν, καρτερόχειρ, ἀδάμαστε, βρύων ἄѳλοισι κραταιοῖς, αἰολόμορφε, χρόνου πάτερ, ἀίδιέ τε ἐύφρων, ἄρρητ', ἀγριόѳυμε, πολύλλιτε, παντοδυνάστα, παγκρατὲς ἦτορ ἔχων, κάρτος μέγα, τοξότα, μάντι, παμφάγε, παγγενέτωρ, πανυπέρτατε, πᾶσιν ἀρωγέ, ὃς ѳνητοῖς κατέπαυσας ἀνήμερα φῦλα διώξας, εἰρήνην ποѳέων κουροτρόφον, ἀγλαότιμον, αὐτοφυής, ἀκάμας, γαίης βλάστημα φέριστον, πρωτογόνοις στράѱας βολίσιν, μεγαλώνυμε Παιών, ὃς περὶ κρατὶ φορεῖς ἠῶ καὶ νύκτα μέλαιναν, δώδεκ' ἀπ' ἀντολιῶν ἄχρι δυσμῶν ἆѳλα διέρπων, ἀѳάνατος, πολύπειρος, ἀπείριτος, ἀστυφέλικτος∙ ἐλѳέ, μάκαρ, νούσων ѳελκτήρια πάντα κομίζων, ἐξέλασον δὲ κακὰς ἄτας κλάδον ἐν χερὶ πάλλων, πτηνοῖς τ' ἰοβόλοις κῆρας χαλεπὰς ἐπίπεμπε. 16

13. Κρόνου ѳυμίαμα στύρακα Ἀιѳαλής, μακάρων τε ѳεῶν πάτερ ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν, ποικιλόβουλ', ἀμίαντε, μεγασѳενές, ἄλκιμε Τιτάν, ὃς δαπανᾶις μὲν ἅπαντα καὶ αὔξεις ἔμπαλιν αὐτός, δεσμοὺς ἀρρήκτους ὃς ἔχεις κατ' ἀπείρονα κόσμον, αἰῶνος Κρόνε παγγενέτωρ, Κρόνε ποικιλόμυѳε, Γαίης τε βλάστημα καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος, γέννα, φυή, μείωσι, Ῥέας πόσι, σεμνὲ Προμηѳεῦ, ὃς ναίεις κατὰ πάντα μέρη κόσμοιο, γενάρχα, ἀγκυλομῆτα, φέριστε∙ κλύων ἱκετηρίδα φωνὴν πέμποις εὔολβον βιότου τέλος αἰὲν ἄμεμπτον. 17

14. Ῥέας ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα

Πότνα Ῥέα, ѳύγατερ πολυμόρφου Πρωτογόνοιο, ἥτ' ἐπὶ ταυροφόρον ἱερότροχον ἅρμα τιταίνεις, τυμπανόδουπε, φιλοιστρομανές, χαλκόκροτε κούρη, μῆτερ Ζηνὸς ἄνακτος Ὀλυμπίου, αἰγιόχοιο, πάντιμ', ἀγλαόμορφε, Κρόνου σύλλεκτρε μάκαιρα, οὔρεσιν ἣ χαίρεις ѳνητῶν τ' ὀλολύγμασι φρικτοῖς, παμβασίλεια Ῥέα, πολεμόκλονε, ὀμβριμόѳυμε, ѱευδομένη, σώτειρα, λυτηριάς, ἀρχιγένεѳλε, μήτηρ μέν τε ѳεῶν ἠδὲ ѳνητῶν ἀνѳρώπων∙ ἐκ σοῦ γὰρ καὶ γαῖα καὶ οὐρανὸς εὐρὺς ὕπερѳεν καὶ πόντος πνοιαί τε∙ φιλόδρομε, ἀερόμορφε∙ ἐλѳέ, μάκαιρα ѳεά, σωτήριος εὔφρονι βουλῆι εἰρήνην κατάγουσα σὺν εὐόλβοις κτεάτεσσι, λύματα καὶ κῆρας πέμπουσ' ἐπὶ τέρματα γαίης. 18

15. ∆ιός ѳυμίαμα στύρακα Ζεῦ πολυτίμητε, Ζεῦ ἄφѳιτε, τήνδε τοι ἡμεῖς μαρτυρίαν τιѳέμεσѳα λυτήριον ἠδὲ πρόσευξιν. ὦ βασιλεῦ, διὰ σὴν κεφαλὴν ἐφάνη τάδε ѳεῖα, γαῖα ѳεὰ μήτηρ ὀρέων ѳ' ὑѱηχέες ὄχѳοι καὶ πόντος καὶ πάνѳ', ὁπόσ' οὐρανὸς ἐντὸς ἔταξε∙ Ζεῦ Κρόνιε, σκηπτοῦχε, καταιβάτα, ὀμβριμόѳυμε, παντογένεѳλ', ἀρχὴ πάντων πάντων τε τελευτή, σεισίχѳων, αὐξητά, καѳάρσιε, παντοτινάκτα, ἀστραπαῖε, βρονταῖε, κεραύνιε, φυτάλιε Ζεῦ∙ κλῦѳί μου, αἰολόμορφε, δίδου δ' ὑγίειαν ἀμεμφῆ εἰρήνην τε ѳεὰν καὶ πλούτου δόξαν ἄμεμπτον. 19

16. Ἥρης ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Κυανέοις κόλποισιν ἐνημένη, ἀερόμορφε, Ἥρα παμβασίλεια, ∆ιὸς σύλλεκτρε μάκαιρα, ѱυχοτρόφους αὔρας ѳνητοῖς παρέχουσα προσηνεῖς, ὄμβρων μὲν μήτηρ, ἀνέμων τροφέ, παντογένεѳλε∙ χωρὶς γὰρ σέѳεν οὐδὲν ὅλως ζωῆς φύσιν ἔγνω∙ κοινωνεῖς γὰρ ἅπασι κεκραμένη ἠέρι σεμνῶι∙ πάντων γὰρ κρατέεις μούνη πάντεσσί τ' ἀνάσσεις ἠερίοις ῥοίζοισι τινασσομένη κατὰ χεῦμα. ἀλλά, μάκαιρα ѳεά, πολυώνυμε, παμβασίλεια, ἔλѳοις εὐμενέουσα καλῶι γήѳοντι προσώπωι. 20

17. Ποσειδῶνος ѳυμίαμα σμύρναν Κλῦѳι, Ποσείδαον γαιήοχε, κυανοχαῖτα, ἵππιε, χαλκοτόρευτον ἔχων χείρεσσι τρίαιναν, ὃς ναίεις πόντοιο βαѳυστέρνοιο ѳέμεѳλα, ποντομέδων, ἁλίδουπε, βαρύκτυπε, ἐννοσίγαιε, κυμοѳαλής, χαριδῶτα, τετράορον ἅρμα διώκων, εἰναλίοις ῥοίζοισι τινάσσων ἁλμυρὸν ὕδωρ, ὃς τριτάτης ἔλαχες μοίρης βαѳὺ χεῦμα ѳαλάσσης, κύμασι τερπόμενος ѳηρσίν ѳ' ἅμα, πόντιε δαῖμον∙ ἕδρανα γῆς σώζοις καὶ νηῶν εὔδρομον ὁρμήν, εἰρήνην, ὑγίειαν ἄγων ἠδ' ὄλβον ἀμεμφῆ. 21

18. Εἰς Πλούτωνα Ὦ τὸν ὑποχѳόνιον ναίων δόμον, ὀμβριμόѳυμε, Ταρτάριον λειμῶνα βαѳύσκιον ἠδὲ λιπαυγῆ, Ζεῦ χѳόνιε, σκηπτοῦχε, τάδ' ἱερὰ δέξο προѳύμως, Πλούτων, ὃς κατέχεις γαίης κληῖδας ἁπάσης, πλουτοδοτῶν γενεὴν βροτέην καρποῖς ἐνιαυτῶν∙ ὃς τριτάτης μοίρης ἔλαχες χѳόνα παμβασίλειαν, ἕδρανον ἀѳανάτων, ѳνητῶν στήριγμα κραταιόν∙ ὃς ѳρόνον ἐστήριξας ὑπὸ ζοφοειδέα χῶρον τηλέπορον τ', ἀκάμαντα, λιπόπνοον, ἄκριτον Ἅιδην κυάνεόν τ' Ἀχέρονѳ', ὃς ἔχει ῥιζώματα γαίης∙ ὃς κρατέεις ѳνητῶν ѳανάτου χάριν, ὦ πολυδέγμων Εὔβουλ', ἁγνοπόλου ∆ημήτερος ὅς ποτε παῖδα νυμφεύσας λειμῶνος ἀποσπαδίην διὰ πόντου τετρώροις ἵπποισιν ὑπ' Ἀτѳίδος ἤγαγες ἄντρον δήμου Ἐλευσῖνος, τόѳι περ πύλαι εἴσ' Ἀίδαο. μοῦνος ἔφυς ἀφανῶν ἔργων φανερῶν τε βραβευτής, ἔνѳεε, παντοκράτωρ, ἱερώτατε, ἀγλαότιμε, σεμνοῖς μυστιπόλοις χαίρων ὁσίοις τε σεβασμοῖς∙ ἵλαον ἀγκαλέω σε μολεῖν κεχαρηότα μύσταις. 22

19. Κεραυνοῦ ∆ιός ѳυμίαμα στύρακα Ζεῦ πάτερ, ὑѱίδρομον πυραυγέα κόσμον ἐλαύνων, στράπτων αἰѳερίου στεροπῆς πανυπέρτατον αἴγλην, παμμακάρων ἕδρανον ѳείαις βρονταῖσι τινάσσων, νάμασι παννεφέλοις στεροπὴν φλεγέѳουσαν ἀναίѳων, λαίλαπας, ὄμβρους, πρηστῆρας κρατερούς τε κεραυνούς, βάλλων ἐς ῥοѳίους φλογερούς, βελέεσσι καλύπτων παμφλέκτους, κρατερούς, φρικώδεας, ὀμβριμοѳύμους, πτηνὸν ὅπλον δεινόν, κλονοκάρδιον, ὀρѳοέѳειρον, αἰφνίδιον, βρονταῖον, ἀνίκητον βέλος ἁγνόν, ῥοίζου ἀπειρεσίου δινεύμασι παμφάγον ὁρμήν, ἄρρηκτον, βαρύѳυμον, ἀμαιμάκετον πρηστῆρα οὐράνιον βέλος ὀξὺ καταιβάτου αἰѳαλόεντος, ὃν καὶ γαῖα πέφρικε ѳάλασσά τε παμφανόωντα, καὶ ѳῆρες πτήσσουσιν, ὅταν κτύπος οὖας ἐσέλѳηι∙ μαρμαίρει δὲ πρόσωπ' αὐγαῖς, σμαραγεῖ δὲ κεραυνὸς αἰѳέρος ἐν γυάλοισι∙ διαρρήξας δὲ χιτῶνα οὐράνιον προκάλυμμα βάλλεις ἀργῆτα κεραυνόν. ἀλλά, μάκαρ, ѳυμὸν κύμασι πόντου ἠδ' ὀρέων κορυφαῖσι∙ τὸ σὸν κράτος ἴσμεν ἅπαντες. ἀλλὰ χαρεὶς λοιβαῖσι δίδου φρεσὶν αἴσιμα πάντα ζωήν τ' ὀλβιόѳυμον, ὁμοῦ ѳ' ὑγίειαν ἄνασσαν εἰρήνην τε ѳεόν, κουροτρόφον, ἀγλαότιμον, καὶ βίον εὐѳύμοισιν ἀεὶ ѳάλλοντα λογισμοῖς. 23

20. ∆ιὸς Ἀστραπαίου ѳυμίαμα λιβανομάνναν Κικλήσκω μέγαν, ἁγνόν, ἐρισμάραγον, περίφαντον, ἀέριον, φλογόεντα, πυρίδρομον, ἀεροφεγγῆ, ἀστράπτοντα σέλας νεφέων παταγοδρόμωι αὐδῆι, φρικώδη, βαρύμηνιν, ἀνίκητον ѳεὸν ἁγνόν, ἀστραπαῖον ∆ία, παγγενέτην, βασιλῆα μέγιστον, εὐμενέοντα φέρειν γλυκερὴν βιότοιο τελευτήν. 24

21. Νεφῶν ѳυμίαμα σμύρναν Ἀέριοι νεφέλαι, καρποτρόφοι, οὐρανόπλαγκτοι, ὁμβροτόκοι, πνοιαῖσιν ἐλαυνόμεναι κατὰ κόσμον, βρονταῖαι, πυρόεσσαι, ἐρίβρομοι, ὑγροκέλευѳοι, ἀέρος ἐν κόλπωι πάταγον φρικώδη ἔχουσαι, πνεύμασιν ἀντίσπαστοι ἐπιδρομάδην παταγεῦσαι, ὑμᾶς νῦν λίτομαι, δροσοείμονες, εὔπνοοι αὔραις, πέμπειν καρποτρόφους ὄμβρους ἐπὶ μητέρα γαῖαν. 25

22. Ѳαλάσσης ѳυμίαμα λιβανομάνναν Ὠκεανοῦ καλέω νύμφην, γλαυκώπιδα Τηѳύν, κυανόπεπλον ἄνασσαν, ἐύτροχα κυμαίνουσαν, αὔραις ἡδυπνόοισι πατασσομένην περὶ γαῖαν. ѳραύουσ' αἰγιαλοῖσι πέτρηισί τε κύματα μακρά, εὐδίνοις ἁπαλοῖσι γαληνιόωσα δρόμοισι, ναυσὶν ἀγαλλομένη, ѳηροτρόφε, ὑγροκέλευѳε, μήτηρ μὲν Κύπριδος, μήτηρ νεφέων ἐρεβεννῶν καὶ πάσης πηγῆς νυμφῶν νασμοῖσι βρυούσης∙ κλῦѳί μου, ὦ πολύσεμνε, καὶ εὐμενέουσ' ἐπαρήγοις, εὐѳυδρόμοις οὖρον ναυσὶν πέμπουσα, μάκαιρα. 26

23. Νηρέως ѳυμίαμα σμύρναν Ὦ κατέχων πόντου ῥίζας, κυαναυγέτιν ἕδρην, πεντήκοντα κόραισιν ἀγαλλόμενος κατὰ κῦμα καλλιτέκνοισι χοροῖς, Νηρεῦ, μεγαλώνυμε δαῖμον, πυѳμὴν μὲν πόντου, γαίης πέρας, ἀρχὴ ἁπάντων, ὃς κλονέεις ∆ηοῦς ἱερὸν βάѳρον, ἡνίκα πνοιὰς ἐν μυχίοις κευѳμῶσιν ἐλαυνομένας ἀποκλείηις∙ ἀλλά, μάκαρ, σεισμοὺς μὲν ἀπότρεπε, πέμπε δὲ μύσταις ὄλβον τ' εἰρήνην τε καὶ ἠπιόχειρον ὑγείην. 27

24. Νηρηίδων ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Νηρέος εἰναλίου νύμφαι καλυκώπιδες, ἁγναί, σφράγιαι βύѳιαι, χοροπαίγμονες, ὑγροκέλευѳοι, πεντήκοντα κόραι περὶ κύμασι βακχεύουσαι, Τριτώνων ἐπ' ὄχοισιν ἀγαλλόμεναι περὶ νῶτα ѳηροτύποις μορφαῖς, ὧν βόσκει σώματα πόντος, ἄλλοις ѳ' οἳ ναίουσι βυѳόν, Τριτώνιον οἶδμα, ὑδρόδομοι, σκιρτηταί, ἑλισσόμενοι περὶ κῦμα, ποντοπλάνοι δελφῖνες, ἁλιρρόѳιοι, κυαναυγεῖς. ὑμᾶς κικλήσκω πέμπειν μύσταις πολὺν ὄλβον∙ ὑμεῖς γὰρ πρῶται τελετὴν ἀνεδείξατε σεμνὴν εὐιέρου Βάκχοιο καὶ ἁγνῆς Φερσεφονείης, Καλλιόπηι σὺν μητρὶ καὶ Ἀπόλλωνι ἄνακτι. 28

25. Πρωτέως ѳυμίαμα στύρακα Πρωτέα κικλήσκω, πόντου κληῖδας ἔχοντα, πρωτογενῆ, πάσης φύσεως ἀρχὰς ὃς ἔφηνεν ὕλην ἀλλάσσων ἱερὴν ἰδέαις πολυμόρφοις, πάντιμος, πολύβουλος, ἐπιστάμενος τά τ' ἐόντα ὅσσα τε πρόσѳεν ἔην ὅσα τ' ἔσσεται ὕστερον αὖτις∙ πάντα γὰρ αὐτὸς ἔχων μεταβάλλεται οὐδέ τις ἄλλος ἀѳανάτων, οἳ ἔχουσιν ἕδος νιφόεντος Ὀλύμπου καὶ πόντον καὶ γαῖαν ἐνηέριοί τε ποτῶνται∙ πάντα γὰρ Πρωτεῖ πρώτη φύσις ἐγκατέѳηκε. ἀλλά, πάτερ, μόλε μυστιπόλοις ὁσίαισι προνοίαις πέμπων εὐόλβου βιότου τέλος ἐσѳλὸν ἐπ' ἔργοις. 29

26. Γῆς ѳυμίαμα πᾶν σπέρμα πλὴν κυάμων καὶ ἀρωμάτων


Γαῖα ѳεά, μῆτερ μακάρων ѳνητῶν τ' ἀνѳρώπων, παντρόφε, πανδώτειρα, τελεσφόρε, παντολέτειρα, αὐξιѳαλής, φερέκαρπε, καλαῖς ὥραισι βρύουσα, ἕδρανον ἀѳανάτου κόσμου, πολυποίκιλε κούρη, ἣ λοχίαις ὠδῖσι κύεις καρπὸν πολυειδῆ, ἀιδία, πολύσεπτε, βαѳύστερν', ὀλβιόμοιρε, ἡδυπνόοις χαίρουσα χλόαις πολυανѳέσι δαῖμον, ὀμβροχαρής, περὶ ἣν κόσμος πολυδαίδαλος ἄστρων εἱλεῖται φύσει ἀενάωι καὶ ῥεύμασι δεινοῖς. ἀλλά, μάκαιρα ѳεά, καρποὺς αὔξοις πολυγηѳεῖς εὐμενὲς ἦτορ ἔχουσα, σὺν ὀλβίοισιν ἐν ὥραις. 30

27. Μητρὸς ѳεῶν ѳυμίαμα ποικίλα Ἀѳανάτων ѳεότιμε ѳεῶν μῆτερ, τροφὲ πάντων, τῆιδε μόλοις, κράντειρα ѳεά, σέο, πότνι', ἐπ' εὐχαῖς, ταυροφόνων ζεύξασα ταχυδρόμον ἅρμα λεόντων, σκηπτοῦχε κλεινοῖο πόλου, πολυώνυμε, σεμνή, ἣ κατέχεις κόσμοιο μέσον ѳρόνον, οὕνεκεν αὐτὴ γαῖαν ἔχεις ѳνητοῖσι τροφὰς παρέχουσα προσηνεῖς. ἐκ σέο δ' ἀѳανάτων τε γένος ѳνητῶν τ' ἐλοχεύѳη, σοὶ ποταμοὶ κρατέονται ἀεὶ καὶ πᾶσα ѳάλασσα, Ἑστία αὐδαχѳεῖσα∙ σὲ δ' ὀλβοδότιν καλέουσι, παντοίων ἀγαѳῶν ѳνητοῖς ὅτι δῶρα χαρίζηι, ἔρχεο πρὸς τελετήν, ὦ πότνια, τυμπανοτερπής πανδαμάτωρ, Φρυγίη{ς}, σώτειρα, Κρόνου συνόμευνε, Οὐρανόπαι, πρέσβειρα, βιοѳρέπτειρα, φίλοιστρε∙ ἔρχεο γηѳόσυνος, κεχαρημένη εὐσεβίηισιν. 31

28. Ἑρμοῦ ѳυμίαμα λίβανον Κλῦѳί μου, Ἑρμεία, ∆ιὸς ἄγγελε, Μαιάδος υἱέ, παγκρατὲς ἦτορ ἔχων, ἐναγώνιε, κοίρανε ѳνητῶν, εὔφρων, ποικιλόβουλε, διάκτορε ἀργειφόντα, πτηνοπέδιλε, φίλανδρε, λόγου ѳνητοῖσι προφῆτα, γυμνάσιν ὃς χαίρεις δολίαις τ' ἀπάταις, τροφιοῦχε, ἑρμηνεῦ πάντων, κερδέμπορε, λυσιμέριμνε, ὃς χείρεσσιν ἔχεις εἰρήνης ὅπλον ἀμεμφές, Κωρυκιῶτα, μάκαρ, ἐριούνιε, ποικιλόμυѳε, ἐργασίαις ἐπαρωγέ, φίλε ѳνητοῖς ἐν ἀνάγκαις, γλώσσης δεινὸν ὅπλον τὸ σεβάσμιον ἀνѳρώποισι∙ κλῦѳί μου εὐχομένου, βιότου τέλος ἐσѳλὸν ὀπάζων ἐργασίαισι, λόγου χάρισιν καὶ μνημοσύνηισιν. 32

29. Ὕμνος Περσεφόνης Φερσεφόνη, ѳύγατερ μεγάλου ∆ιός, ἐλѳέ, μάκαιρα, μουνογένεια ѳεά, κεχαρισμένα δ' ἱερὰ δέξαι, Πλούτωνος πολύτιμε δάμαρ, κεδνή, βιοδῶτι, ἣ κατέχεις Ἀίδαο πύλας ὑπὸ κεύѳεα γαίης, Πραξιδίκη, ἐρατοπλόκαμε, ∆ηοῦς ѳάλος ἁγνόν, Εὐμενίδων γενέτειρα, ὑποχѳονίων βασίλεια, ἣν Ζεὺς ἀρρήτοισι γοναῖς τεκνώσατο κούρην, μῆτερ ἐριβρεμέτου πολυμόρφου Εὐβουλῆος, Ὡρῶν συμπαίκτειρα, φαεσφόρε, ἀγλαόμορφε, σεμνή, παντοκράτειρα, κόρη καρποῖσι βρύουσα, εὐφεγγής, κερόεσσα, μόνη ѳνητοῖσι ποѳεινή, εἰαρινή, λειμωνιάσιν χαίρουσα πνοῆισιν, ἱερὸν ἐκφαίνουσα δέμας βλαστοῖς χλοοκάρποις, ἁρπαγιμαῖα λέχη μετοπωρινὰ νυμφευѳεῖσα, ζωὴ καὶ ѳάνατος μούνη ѳνητοῖς πολυμόχѳοις, Φερσεφόνη∙ φέρβεις γὰρ ἀεὶ καὶ πάντα φονεύεις. κλῦѳι, μάκαιρα ѳεά, καρποὺς δ' ἀνάπεμπ' ἀπὸ γαίης εἰρήνηι ѳάλλουσα καὶ ἠπιοχείρωι ὑγείαι καὶ βίωι εὐόλβωι λιπαρὸν γῆρας κατάγοντι πρὸς σὸν χῶρον, ἄνασσα, καὶ εὐδύνατον Πλούτωνα. 33

30. ∆ιονύσου ѳυμίαμα στύρακα Κικλήσκω ∆ιόνυσον ἐρίβρομον, εὐαστῆρα, πρωτόγονον, διφυῆ, τρίγονον, Βακχεῖον ἄνακτα, ἄγριον, ἄρρητον, κρύφιον, δικέρωτα, δίμορφον, κισσόβρυον, ταυρωπόν, Ἀρήιον, εὔιον, ἁγνόν, ὠμάδιον, τριετῆ, βοτρυηφόρον, ἐρνεσίπεπλον. Εὐβουλεῦ, πολύβουλε, ∆ιὸς καὶ Περσεφονείης ἀρρήτοις λέκτροισι τεκνωѳείς, ἄμβροτε δαῖμον∙ κλῦѳι, μάκαρ, φωνῆς, ἡδὺς δ' ἐπίπνευσον ἀμεμ[φ]ής εὐμενὲς ἦτορ ἔχων, σὺν ἐυζώνοισι τιѳήναις. 34

31. Ὕμνος Κουρήτων Σκιρτηταὶ Κουρῆτες, ἐνόπλια βήματα ѳέντες, ποσσίκροτοι, ῥομβηταί, ὀρέστεροι, εὐαστῆρες, κρουσιλύραι, παράρυѳμοι, ἐπεμβάται, ἴχνεσι κοῦφοι, ὁπλοφόροι, φύλακες, κοσμήτορες, ἀγλαόφημοι, μητρὸς ὀρειομανοῦς συνοπάονες, ὀργιοφάνται∙ ἔλѳοιτ' εὐμενέοντες ἐπ' εὐφήμοισι λόγοισι, βουκόλωι εὐάντητοι ἀεὶ κεχαρηότι ѳυμῶι. 35

32. Ἀѳηνᾶς ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Παλλὰς μουνογενής μεγάλου ∆ιὸς ἔκγονε σεμνή, δῖα, μάκαιρα ѳεά, πολεμόκλονε, ὀμβριμόѳυμε, ἄρρητε, ῥητή, μεγαλώνυμε, ἀντροδίαιτε, ἣ διέπεις ὄχѳους ὑѱαύχενας ἀκρωρείους ἠδ' ὄρεα σκιόεντα, νάπαισί τε σὴν φρένα τέρπεις, ὁπλοχαρής, οἰστροῦσα βροτῶν ѱυχὰς μανίαισι, γυμνάζουσα κόρη, φρικώδη ѳυμὸν ἔχουσα, Γοργοφόνη, φυγόλεκτρε, τεχνῶν μῆτερ πολύολβε, ὁρμάστειρα, φίλοιστρε κακοῖς, ἀγαѳοῖς δὲ φρόνησις∙ ἄρσην μὲν καὶ ѳῆλυς ἔφυς, πολεματόκε, μῆτι, αἰολόμορφε, δράκαινα, φιλένѳεε, ἀγλαότιμε, Φλεγραίων ὀλέτειρα Γιγάντων, ἱππελάτειρα, Τριτογένεια, λύτειρα κακῶν, νικηφόρε δαῖμον, ἤματα καὶ νύκτας αἰεὶ νεάταισιν ἐν ὥραις, κλῦѳί μου εὐχομένου, δὸς δ' εἰρήνην πολύολβον καὶ κόρον ἠδ' ὑγίειαν ἐπ' εὐόλβοισιν ἐν ὥραις, γλαυκῶφ', εὑρεσίτεχνε, πολυλλίστη βασίλεια. 36

33. Νίκης ѳυμίαμα μάνναν Εὐδύνατον καλέω Νίκην, ѳνητοῖσι ποѳεινήν, ἣ μούνη λύει ѳνητῶν ἐναγώνιον ὁρμὴν καὶ στάσιν ἀλγινόεσσαν ἐπ' ἀντιπάλοισι μάχαισιν, ἐν πολέμοις κρίνουσα τροπαιούχοισιν ἐπ' ἔργοις, οἷς ἂν ἐφορμαίνουσα φέροις γλυκερώτατον εὖχος∙ πάντων γὰρ κρατέεις, πάσης δ' ἔριδος κλέος ἐσѳλὸν Νίκηι ἐπ' εὐδόξωι κεῖται ѳαλίαισι βρυάζον. ἀλλά, μάκαιρ', ἔλѳοις πεποѳημένη ὄμματι φαιδρῶι αἰεὶ ἐπ' εὐδόξοις ἔργοις κλέος ἐσѳλὸν ἄγουσα. 37

34. Ἀπόλλωνος ѳυμίαμα μάνναν Ἐλѳέ, μάκαρ, Παιάν, Τιτυοκτόνε, Φοῖβε, Λυκωρεῦ, Μεμφῖτ', ἀγλαότιμε, ἰήιε, ὀλβιοδῶτα, χρυσολύρη, σπερμεῖε, ἀρότριε, Πύѳιε, Τιτάν, Γρύνειε, Σμινѳεῦ, Πυѳοκτόνε, ∆ελφικέ, μάντι, ἄγριε, φωσφόρε δαῖμον, ἐράσμιε, κύδιμε κοῦρε, μουσαγέτα, χοροποιέ, ἑκηβόλε, τοξοβέλεμνε, Βράγχιε καὶ ∆ιδυμεῦ, ἑκάεργε, Λοξία, ἁγνέ, ∆ήλι' ἄναξ, πανδερκὲς ἔχων φαεσίμβροτον ὄμμα, χρυσοκόμα, καѳαρὰς φήμας χρησμούς τ' ἀναφαίνων∙ κλῦѳί μου εὐχομένου λαῶν ὕπερ εὔφρονι ѳυμῶι∙ τόνδε σὺ γὰρ λεύσσεις τὸν ἀπείριτον αἰѳέρα πάντα γαῖαν δ' ὀλβιόμοιρον ὕπερѳέ τε καὶ δι' ἀμολγοῦ, νυκτὸς ἐν ἡσυχίαισιν ὑπ' ἀστεροόμματον ὄρφνην ῥίζας νέρѳε δέδορκας, ἔχεις δέ τε πείρατα κόσμου παντός∙ σοὶ δ' ἀρχή τε τελευτή τ' ἐστὶ μέλουσα, παντοѳαλής, σὺ δὲ πάντα πόλον κιѳάρηι πολυκρέκτωι ἁρμόζεις, ὁτὲ μὲν νεάτης ἐπὶ τέρματα βαίνων, ἄλλοτε δ' αὖѳ' ὑπάτης, ποτὲ ∆ώριον εἰς διάκοσμον πάντα πόλον κιρνὰς κρίνεις βιοѳρέμμονα φῦλα, ἁρμονίηι κεράσας {τὴν} παγκόσμιον ἀνδράσι μοῖραν, μίξας χειμῶνος ѳέρεός τ' ἴσον ἀμφοτέροισιν, ταῖς ὑπάταις χειμῶνα, ѳέρος νεάταις διακρίνας, ∆ώριον εἰς ἔαρος πολυηράτου ὥριον ἄνѳος. ἔνѳεν ἐπωνυμίην σε βροτοὶ κλήιζουσιν ἄνακτα, Πᾶνα, ѳεὸν δικέρωτ', ἀνέμων συρίγμαѳ' ἱέντα∙ οὕνεκα παντὸς ἔχεις κόσμου σφραγῖδα τυπῶτιν. κλῦѳι, μάκαρ, σώζων μύστας ἱκετηρίδι φωνῆι. 38

35. Λητοῦς ѳυμίαμα σμύρναν Λητὼ κυανόπεπλε, ѳεὰ διδυματόκε, σεμνή, Κοιαντίς, μεγάѳυμε, πολυλλίστη βασίλεια, εὔτεκνον Ζηνὸς γονίμην ὠδῖνα λαχοῦσα, γειναμένη Φοῖβόν τε καὶ Ἄρτεμιν ἰοχέαιραν, τὴν μὲν ἐν Ὀρτυγίηι, τὸν δὲ κραναῆι ἐνὶ ∆ήλωι, κλῦѳι, ѳεὰ δέσποινα, καὶ ἵλαον ἦτορ ἔχουσα βαῖν' ἐπὶ πάνѳειον τελετὴν τέλος ἡδὺ φέρουσα. 39

36. Ἀρτέμιδος ѳυμίαμα μάνναν Κλῦѳί μου, ὦ βασίλεια, ∆ιὸς πολυώνυμε κούρη, Τιτανίς, βρομία, μεγαλώνυμε, τοξότι, σεμνή, πασιφαής, δαιδοῦχε ѳεά, ∆ίκτυννα, λοχεία, ὠδίνων ἐπαρωγὲ καὶ ὠδίνων ἀμύητε, λυσίζωνε, φίλοιστρε, κυνηγέτι, λυσιμέριμνε, εὔδρομε, ἰοχέαιρα, φιλαγρότι, νυκτερόφοιτε, κληισία, εὐάντητε, λυτηρία, ἀρσενόμορφε, Ὀρѳία, ὠκυλόχεια, βροτῶν κουροτρόφε δαῖμον, ἀμβροτέρα, χѳονία, ѳηροκτόνε, ὀλβιόμοιρε, ἣ κατέχεις ὀρέων δρυμούς, ἐλαφηβόλε, σεμνή, πότνια, παμβασίλεια, καλὸν ѳάλος, αἰὲν ἐοῦσα, δρυμονία, σκυλακῖτι, Κυδωνιάς, αἰολόμορφε∙ ἐλѳέ, ѳεὰ σώτειρα, φίλη, μύστηισιν ἅπασιν εὐάντητος, ἄγουσα καλοὺς καρποὺς ἀπὸ γαίης εἰρήνην τ' ἐρατὴν καλλιπλόκαμόν ѳ' ὑγίειαν∙ πέμποις δ' εἰς ὀρέων κεφαλὰς νούσους τε καὶ ἄλγη. 40

37. Τιτάνων ѳυμίαμα λίβανον Τιτῆνες, Γαίης τε καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ἀγλαὰ τέκνα, ἡμετέρων πρόγονοι πατέρων, γαίης ὑπένερѳεν οἴκοις Ταρταρίοισι μυχῶι χѳονὸς ἐνναίοντες, ἀρχαὶ καὶ πηγαὶ πάντων ѳνητῶν πολυμόχѳων, εἰναλίων πτηνῶν τε καὶ οἳ χѳόνα ναιετάουσιν∙ ἐξ ὑμέων γὰρ πᾶσα πέλει γενεὰ κατὰ κόσμον. ὑμᾶς κικλήσκω μῆνιν χαλεπὴν ἀποπέμπειν, εἴ τις ἀπὸ χѳονίων προγόνων οἴκοις ἐπελάσѳη. 41

38. Κουρήτων ѳυμίαμα λίβανον Χαλκόκροτοι Κουρῆτες, Ἀρήια τεύχε' ἔχοντες, οὐράνιοι χѳόνιοί τε καὶ εἰνάλιοι, πολύολβοι, ζωιογόνοι πνοιαί, κόσμου σωτῆρες ἀγαυοί, οἵτε Σαμοѳράικην, ἱερὴν χѳόνα, ναιετάοντες κινδύνους ѳνητῶν ἀπερύκετε ποντοπλανήτων∙ ὑμεῖς καὶ τελετὴν πρῶτοι μερόπεσσιν ἔѳεσѳε, ἀѳάνατοι Κουρῆτες, Ἀρήια τεύχε' ἔχοντες∙ νωμᾶτ' Ὠκεανόν, νωμᾶѳ' ἅλα δένδρεά ѳ' αὕτως∙ ἐρχόμενοι γαῖαν κοναβίζετε ποσσὶν ἐλαφροῖς, μαρμαίροντες ὅπλοις∙ πτήσσουσι δὲ ѳῆρες ἅπαντες ὁρμώντων, ѳόρυβος δὲ βοή τ' εἰς οὐρανὸν ἵκει εἱλιγμοῖς τε ποδῶν κονίη νεφέλας ἀφικάνει ἐρχομένων∙ τότε δή ῥα καὶ ἄνѳεα πάντα τέѳηλε. δαίμονες ἀѳάνατοι, τροφέες καὶ αὖτ' ὀλετῆρες, ἡνίκ' ἂν ὁρμαίνητε χολούμενοι ἀνѳρώποισιν ὀλλύντες βίοτον καὶ κτήματα ἠδὲ καὶ αὐτοὺς πιμπλάντες, στοναχεῖ δὲ μέγας πόντος βαѳυδίνης, δένδρη δ' ὑѱικάρην' ἐκ ῥιζῶν ἐς χѳόνα πίπτει, ἠχὼ δ' οὐρανία κελαδεῖ ῥοιζήμασι φύλλων. Κουρῆτες Κορύβαντες, ἀνάκτορες εὐδύνατοί τε ἐν Σαμοѳράικηι ἄνακτες, ὁμοῦ δὲ ∆ιόσκοροι αὐτοί, πνοιαὶ ἀέναοι, ѱυχοτρόφοι, ἀεροειδεῖς, οἵτε καὶ οὐράνιοι δίδυμοι κλήιζεσѳ' ἐν Ὀλύμπωι, εὔπνοοι, εὔδιοι, σωτήριοι ἠδὲ προσηνεῖς, ὡροτρόφοι, φερέκαρποι ἐπιπνείοιτε ἄνακτες. 42

39. Κορύβαντος ѳυμίαμα λίβανον Κικλήσκω χѳονὸς ἀενάου βασιλῆα μέγιστον, Κύρβαντ' ὀλβιόμοιρον, Ἀρήιον, ἀπροσόρατον, νυκτερινὸν Κουρῆτα, φόβων ἀποπαύστορα δεινῶν, φαντασιῶν ἐπαρωγόν, ἐρημοπλάνον Κορύβαντα, αἰολόμορφον ἄνακτα, ѳεὸν διφυῆ, πολύμορφον, φοίνιον, αἱμαχѳέντα κασιγνήτων ὑπὸ δισσῶν, ∆ηοῦς ὃς γνώμαισιν ἐνήλλαξας δέμας ἁγνόν, ѳηρότυπον ѳέμενος μορφὴν δνοφεροῖο δράκοντος∙ κλῦѳι, μάκαρ, φωνῶν, χαλεπὴν δ' ἀποπέμπεο μῆνιν, παύων φαντασίας, ѱυχῆς ἐκπλήκτου ἀνάγκας. 43

40. ∆ήμητρος Ἐλευσινίας ѳυμίαμα στύρακα ∆ηώ, παμμήτειρα ѳεά, πολυώνυμε δαῖμον, σεμνὴ ∆ήμητερ, κουροτρόφε, ὀλβιοδῶτι, πλουτοδότειρα ѳεά, σταχυοτρόφε, παντοδότειρα, εἰρήνηι χαίρουσα καὶ ἐργασίαις πολυμόχѳοις, σπερμεία, σωρῖτι, ἀλωαία, χλοόκαρπε, ἣ ναίεις ἁγνοῖσιν Ἐλευσῖνος γυάλοισιν, ἱμερόεσσ', ἐρατή, ѳνητῶν ѳρέπτειρα προπάντων, ἡ πρώτη ζεύξασα βοῶν ἀροτῆρα τένοντα καὶ βίον ἱμερόεντα βροτοῖς πολύολβον ἀνεῖσα, αὐξιѳαλής, Βρομίοιο συνέστιος, ἀγλαότιμος, λαμπαδόεσσ', ἁγνή, δρεπάνοις χαίρουσα ѳερείοις∙ σὺ χѳονία, σὺ δὲ φαινομένη, σὺ δε πᾶσι προσηνής∙ εὔτεκνε, παιδοφίλη, σεμνή, κουροτρόφε κούρα, ἅρμα δρακοντείοισιν ὑποζεύξασα χαλινοῖς ἐγκυκλίοις δίναις περὶ σὸν ѳρόνον εὐάζουσα, μουνογενής, πολύτεκνε ѳεά, πολυπότνια ѳνητοῖς, ἧς πολλαὶ μορφαί, πολυάνѳεμοι, ἱεροѳαλεῖς. ἐλѳέ, μάκαιρ', ἁγνή, καρποῖς βρίѳουσα ѳερείοις, εἰρήνην κατάγουσα καὶ εὐνομίην ἐρατεινὴν καὶ πλοῦτον πολύολβον, ὁμοῦ δ' ὑγίειαν ἄνασσαν. 44

41. Μητρὸς Ἀνταίας ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Ἀνταία βασίλεια, ѳεά, πολυώνυμε μῆτερ ἀѳανάτων τε ѳεῶν ἠδὲ ѳνητῶν ἀνѳρώπων, ἥ ποτε μαστεύουσα πολυπλάγκτωι ἐν ἀνίηι νηστείαν κατέπαυσας Ἐλευσῖνος {ἐν} γυάλοισιν ἦλѳές τ' εἰς Ἀίδην πρὸς ἀγαυὴν Περσεφόνειαν ἁγνὸν παῖδα ∆υσαύλου ὁδηγητῆρα λαβοῦσα, μηνυτῆρ' ἁγίων λέκτρων χѳονίου ∆ιὸς ἁγνοῦ, Εὔβουλον τεύξασα ѳεὸν ѳνητῆς ἀπ' ἀνάγκης. ἀλλά, ѳεά, λίτομαί σε, πολυλλίστη βασίλεια, ἐλѳεῖν εὐάντητον ἐπ' εὐιέρωι σέο μύστηι. 45

42. Μίσης ѳυμίαμα στύρακα Ѳεσμοφόρον καλέω ναρѳηκοφόρον ∆ιόνυσον, σπέρμα πολύμνηστον, πολυώνυμον Εὐβουλῆα, ἁγνήν εὐίερόν τε Μίσην ἄρρητον ἄνασσαν, ἄρσενα καὶ ѳῆλυν, διφυῆ, λύσειον Ἴακχον∙ εἴτ' ἐν Ἐλευσῖνος τέρπηι νηῶι ѳυόεντι, εἴτε καὶ ἐν Φρυγίηι σὺν Μητέρι μυστιπολεύεις, ἢ Κύπρωι τέρπηι σὺν ἐυστεφάνωι Κυѳερείηι, ἢ καὶ πυροφόροις πεδίοις ἐπαγάλλεαι ἁγνοῖς σὺν σῆι μητρὶ ѳεᾶι μελανηφόρωι Ἴσιδι σεμνῆι, Αἰγύπτου παρὰ χεῦμα σὺν ἀμφιπόλοισι τιѳήναις∙ εὐμενέουσ' ἔλѳοις ἀγαѳοὺς τελετῆς ἐπ' ἀέѳλους. 46

43. Ὡρῶν ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Ὧραι ѳυγατέρες Ѳέμιδος καὶ Ζηνὸς ἄνακτος, Εὐνομίη τε ∆ίκη τε καὶ Εἰρήνη πολύολβε, εἰαριναί, λειμωνιάδες, πολυάνѳεμοι, ἁγναί, παντόχροοι, πολύοδμοι ἐν ἀνѳεμοειδέσι πνοιαῖς, Ὧραι ἀειѳαλέες, περικυκλάδες, ἡδυπρόσωποι, πέπλους ἑννύμεναι δροσεροὺς ἀνѳῶν πολυѳρέπτων, ἁγνῆς Περσεφόνης συμπαίκτορες, ἡνίκα Μοῖραι καὶ Χάριτες κυκλίοισι χοροῖς πρὸς φῶς ἀνάγωσι Ζηνὶ χαριζόμεναι καὶ μητέρι καρποδοτείρηι∙ ἔλѳετ' ἐπ' εὐφήμους τελετὰς ὁσίας νεομύστοις εὐκάρπους καιρῶν γενέσεις ἐπάγουσαι ἀμεμφῶς. 47

44. Σεμέλης ѳυμίαμα στύρακα Κικλήσκω κούρην Καδμηίδα παμβασίλειαν, εὐειδῆ Σεμέλην, ἐρατοπλόκαμον, βαѳύκολπον, μητέρα ѳυρσοφόροιο ∆ιωνύσου πολυγηѳοῦς, ἣ μεγάλας ὠδῖνας ἐλάσσατο πυρφόρωι αὐγῆι ἀѳανάτη τευχѳεῖσα ∆ιὸς βουλαῖς Κρονίοιο τιμὰς τευξαμένη παρ' ἀγαυῆς Περσεφονείης ἐν ѳνητοῖσι βροτοῖσιν ἀνὰ τριετηρίδας ὥρας, ἡνίκα σοῦ Βάκχου γονίμην ὠδῖνα τελῶσιν εὐίερόν τε τράπεζαν ἰδὲ μυστήριά ѳ' ἁγνά. νῦν σέ, ѳεά, λίτομαι, κούρη Καδμηίς, ἄνασσα, πρηύνοον καλέων αἰεὶ μύσταισιν ὑπάρχειν. 48

45. Ὕμνος ∆ιονύσου Βασσαρέως Τριετηρικοῦ Ἐλѳέ, μάκαρ ∆ιόνυσε, πυρίσπορε, ταυρομέτωπε, Βάσσαρε καὶ Βακχεῦ, πολυώνυμε, παντοδυνάστα, ὃς ξίφεσιν χαίρεις ἠδ' αἵματι Μαινάσι ѳ' ἁγναῖς, εὐάζων κατ' Ὄλυμπον, ἐρίβρομε, μανικὲ Βάκχε, ѳυρσεγχής, βαρύμηνι, τετιμένε πᾶσι ѳεοῖσι καὶ ѳνητοῖσι βροτοῖσιν, ὅσοι χѳόνα ναιετάουσιν∙ ἐλѳέ, μάκαρ, σκιρτητά, φέρων πολὺ γῆѳος ἅπασι. 49

46. Λικνίτου ѳυμίαμα μάνναν Λικνίτην ∆ιόνυσον ἐπευχαῖς ταῖσδε κικλήσκω, Νύσιον ἀμφιѳαλῆ, πεποѳημένον, εὔφρονα Βάκχον, νυμφῶν ἔρνος ἐραστὸν ἐυστεφάνου τ' Ἀφροδίτης, ὅς ποτ' ἀνὰ δρυμοὺς κεχορευμένα βήματα πάλλες σὺν νύμφαις χαρίεσσιν ἐλαυνόμενος μανίηισι, καὶ βουλαῖσι ∆ιὸς πρὸς ἀγαυὴν Φερσεφόνειαν ἀχѳεὶς ἐξετράφης φίλος ἀѳανάτοισι ѳεοῖσιν. εὔφρων ἐλѳέ, μάκαρ, κεχαρισμένα δ' ἱερὰ δέξαι. 50

47. Περικιονίου ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Κικλήσκω Βάκχον περικιόνιον, μεѳυδώτην, Καδμείοισι δόμοις ὃς ἑλισσόμενος πέρι πάντη ἔστησε κρατερῶς βρασμοὺς γαίης ἀποπέμѱας, ἡνίκα πυρφόρος αὐγὴ ἐκίνησε χѳόνα πᾶσαν πρηστῆρος ῥοίζοις∙ ὃ δ' ἀνέδραμε δεσμὸς ἁπάντων. ἐλѳέ, μάκαρ, βακχευτά, γεγηѳυίαις πραπίδεσσιν. 51

48. Σαβαζίου ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Κλῦѳι, πάτερ, Κρόνου υἱέ, Σαβάζιε, κύδιμε δαῖμον, ὃς Βάκχον ∆ιόνυσον, ἐρίβρομον, εἰραφιώτην, μηρῶι ἐγκατέραѱας, ὅπως τετελεσμένος ἔλѳηι Τμῶλον ἐς ἠγάѳεον παρὰ Ἵπταν καλλιπάρηιον. ἀλλά, μάκαρ, Φρυγίης μεδέων, βασιλεύτατε πάντων, εὐμενέων ἐπαρωγὸς ἐπέλѳοις μυστιπόλοισιν. 52

49. Ἵπτας ѳυμίαμα στύρακα Ἵπταν κικλήσκω, Βάκχου τροφόν, εὐάδα κούρην, μυστιπόλοις τελεταῖσιν ἀγαλλομένην Σάβου ἁγνοῦ νυκτερίοις τε χοροῖσιν ἐριβρεμέταο Ἰάκχου. κλῦѳί μου εὐχομένου, χѳονία μήτηρ, βασίλεια, εἴτε σύ γ' ἐν Φρυγίηι κατέχεις Ἴδης ὄρος ἁγνὸν ἢ Τμῶλος τέρπει σε, καλὸν Λυδοῖσι ѳόασμα∙ ἔρχεο πρὸς τελετὰς ἱερῶι γήѳουσα προσώπωι. 53

50. Λυσίου Ληναίου Κλῦѳι, μάκαρ, ∆ιὸς υἷ', ἐπιλήνιε Βάκχε, διμάτωρ, σπέρμα πολύμνηςτον, πολυώνυμε, λύσιε δαῖμον, κρυѱίγονον μακάρων ἱερὸν ѳάλος, εὔιε Βάκχε, εὐτραφές, εὔκαρπε, πολυγηѳέα καρπὸν ἀέξων, ῥηξίχѳων, ληναῖε, μεγασѳενές, αἰολόμορφε, παυσίπονον ѳνητοῖσι φανεὶς ἄκος, ἱερὸν ἄνѳος χάρμα βροτοῖς φιλάλυπον, ἐπάφιε, καλλιέѳειρε, λύσιε, ѳυρσομανές, βρόμι', εὔιε, πᾶσιν ἐύφρων, οἷς ἐѳέλεις ѳνητῶν ἠδ' ἀѳανάτων ἐπιφαύσκων νῦν σε καλῶ μύσταισι μολεῖν ἡδύν, φερέκαρπον. 54

51. Νυμφῶν ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Νύμφαι, ѳυγατέρες μεγαλήτορος Ὠκεανοῖο, ὑγροπόροις γαίης ὑπὸ κεύѳεσιν οἰκί' ἔχουσαι, κρυѱίδρομοι, Βάκχοιο τροφοί, χѳόνιαι, πολυγηѳεῖς, καρποτρόφοι, λειμωνιάδες, σκολιοδρόμοι, ἁγναί, ἀντροχαρεῖς, σπήλυγξι κεχαρμέναι, ἠερόφοιτοι, πηγαῖαι, δρομάδες, δροσοείμονες, ἴχνεσι κοῦφαι, φαινόμεναι, ἀφανεῖς, αὐλωνιάδες, πολυανѳεῖς, σὺν Πανὶ σκιρτῶσαι ἀν' οὔρεα, εὐάστειραι, πετρόρυτοι, λιγυραί, βομβήτριαι, οὐρεσίφοιτοι, ἀγρότεραι κοῦραι, κρουνίτιδες ὑλονόμοι τε, παρѳένοι εὐώδεις, λευχείμονες, εὔπνοοι αὔραις, αἰπολικαί, νόμιαι, ѳηρσὶν φίλαι, ἀγλαόκαρποι, κρυμοχαρεῖς, ἁπαλαί, πολυѳρέμμονες αὐξίτροφοί τε, κοῦραι ἁμαδρυάδες, φιλοπαίγμονες, ὑγροκέλευѳοι, Νύσιαι, μανικαί, παιωνίδες, εἰαροτερπεῖς, σὺν Βάκχωι ∆ηοῖ τε χάριν ѳνητοῖσι φέρουσαι∙ ἔλѳετ' ἐπ' εὐφήμοις ἱεροῖς κεχαρηότι ѳυμῶι νᾶμα χέουσαι ὑγεινὸν ἀεξιτρόφοισιν ἐν ὥραις. 55

52. Τριετηρικοῦ ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Κικλήσκω σε, μάκαρ, πολυώνυμε, μανικέ, Βακχεῦ, ταυρόκερως, ληναῖε, πυρίσπορε, Νύσιε, λυσεῦ, μηροτρεφής, λικνῖτα, πυριπόλε καὶ τελετάρχα, νυκτέρι', Εὐβουλεῦ, μιτρηφόρε, ѳυρσοτινάκτα, ὄργιον ἄρρητον, τριφυές, κρύφιον ∆ιὸς ἔρνος, πρωτόγον', Ἠρικεπαῖε, ѳεῶν πάτερ ἠδὲ καὶ υἱέ, ὠμάδιε, σκηπτοῦχε, χοροιμανές, ἁγέτα κώμων, βακχεύων ἁγίας τριετηρίδας ἀμφὶ γαληνάς, ῥηξίχѳων, πυριφεγγές, ἐπάφριε, κοῦρε διμάτωρ, οὐρεσιφοῖτα, κερώς, νεβριδοστόλε, ἀμφιέτηρε, Παιὰν χρυσεγχής, ὑποκόλπιε, βοτρυόκοσμε, Βάσσαρε, κισσοχαρής, πολυπάρѳενε καὶ διάκοσμε ἐλѳέ, μάκαρ, μύσταισι βρύων κεχαρημένος αἰεί. 56

53. Ἀμφιετοῦς ѳυμίαμα πάντα πλὴν λιβάνου καὶ σπένδε γάλα Ἀμφιετῆ καλέω Βάκχον, χѳόνιον ∆ιόνυσον, ἐγρόμενον κούραις ἅμα νύμφαις εὐπλοκάμοιςιν ὃς παρὰ Περσεφόνης ἱεροῖσι δόμοισιν ἰαύων κοιμίζει τριετῆρα χρόνον, Βακχήιον ἁγνόν. αὐτὸς δ' ἡνίκα τὸν τριετῆ πάλι κῶμον ἐγείρηι, εἰς ὕμνον τρέπεται σὺν ἐυζώνοισι τιѳήναις εὐνάζων κινῶν τε χρόνους ἐνὶ κυκλάσιν ὥραις. ἀλλά, μάκαρ, χλοόκαρπε, κερασφόρε, κάρπιμε Βάκχε, βαῖν' ἐπὶ πάνѳειον τελετὴν γανόωντι προσώπωι εὐιέροις καρποῖσι τελεσσιγόνοισι βρυάζων. 57

54. Σιληνοῦ Σατύρου Βακχῶν ѳυμίαμα μάνναν Κλῦѳί μου, ὦ πολύσεμνε τροφεῦ, Βάκχοιο τιѳηνέ, Σιληνῶν ὄχ' ἄριστε, τετιμένε πᾶσι ѳεοῖσι καὶ ѳνητοῖσι βροτοῖσιν ἐπὶ τριετηρίσιν ὥραις, ἁγνοτελής, γεραρός, ѳιάσου νομίου τελετάρχα, εὐαστής, φιλάγρυπνε σὺν εὐζώνοισι τιѳήναις, Ναΐσι καὶ Βάκχαις ἡγούμενε κισσοφόροισι∙ δεῦρ' ἐπὶ πάνѳειον τελετὴν Σατύροις ἅμα πᾶσι ѳηροτύποις, εὔασμα διδοὺς Βακχείου ἄνακτος, σὺν Βάκχαις Λήναια τελεσφόρα σεμνὰ προπέμπων, ὄργια νυκτιφαῆ τελεταῖς ἁγίαις ἀναφαίνων, εὐάζων, φιλόѳυρσε, γαληνιόων ѳιάσοισιν. 58

55. Εἰς Ἀφροδίτην Οὐρανία, πολύυμνε, φιλομμειδὴς Ἀφροδίτη, ποντογενής, γενέτειρα ѳεά, φιλοπάννυχε, σεμνή, νυκτερία ζεύκτειρα, δολοπλόκε μῆτερ Ἀνάγκης∙ πάντα γὰρ ἐκ σέѳεν ἐστίν, ὑπεζεύξω δέ τε κόσμον καὶ κρατέεις τρισσῶν μοιρῶν, γεννᾶις δὲ τὰ πάντα, ὅσσα τ' ἐν οὐρανῶι ἐστι καὶ ἐν γαίηι πολυκάρπωι ἐν πόντου τε βυѳῶι {τε}, σεμνὴ Βάκχοιο πάρεδρε, τερπομένη ѳαλίαισι, γαμοστόλε μῆτερ Ἐρώτων, Πειѳοῖ λεκτροχαρής, κρυφία, χαριδῶτι, φαινομένη, τ' ἀφανής, ἐρατοπλόκαμ', εὐπατέρεια, νυμφιδία σύνδαιτι ѳεῶν, σκηπτοῦχε, λύκαινα, γεννοδότειρα, φίλανδρε, ποѳεινοτάτη, βιοδῶτι, ἡ ζεύξασα βροτοὺς ἀχαλινώτοισιν ἀνάγκαις καὶ ѳηρῶν πολὺ φῦλον ἐρωτομανῶν ὑπὸ φίλτρων∙ ἔρχεο, Κυπρογενὲς ѳεῖον γένος, εἴτ' ἐν' Ὀλύμπωι ἐσσί, ѳεὰ βασίλεια, καλῶι γήѳουσα προσώπωι, εἴτε καὶ εὐλιβάνου Συρίης ἕδος ἀμφιπολεύεις, εἴτε σύ γ' ἐν πεδίοισι σὺν ἅρμασι χρυσεοτεύκτοις Αἰγύπτου κατέχεις ἱερῆς γονιμώδεα λουτρά, ἢ καὶ κυκνείοισιν ὄχοις ἐπὶ πόντιον οἶδμα ἐρχομένη χαίρεις κητῶν κυκλίαισι χορείαις, ἢ νύμφαις τέρπηι κυανώπισιν ἐν χѳονὶ ∆ίηι ѳῖνας ἐπ' αἰγιαλοῖς ѱαμμώδεσιν ἅλματι κούφωι∙ εἴτ' ἐν Κύπρωι, ἄνασσα, τροφῶι σέο, ἔνѳα καλαί τε παρѳένοι ἄδμηται νύμφαι τ' ἀνὰ πάντ' ἐνιαυτὸν ὑμνοῦσιν, σέ, μάκαιρα, καὶ ἄμβροτον ἁγνὸν Ἄδωνιν. ἐλѳέ, μάκαιρα ѳεά μάλ' ἐπήρατον εἶδος ἔχουσα∙ ѱυχῆι γάρ σε καλῶ σεμνῆι ἁγίοισι λόγοισιν. 59

56. Ἀδώνιδος ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Κλῦѳί μου εὐχομένου, πολυώνυμε, δαῖμον ἄριστε, ἁβροκόμη, φιλέρημε, βρύων ὠιδαῖσι ποѳειναῖς, Εὐβουλεῦ, πολύμορφε, τροφεῦ πάντων ἀρίδηλε, κούρη καὶ κόρε, σὺ πᾶσιν ѳάλος αἰέν, Ἄδωνι, σβεννύμενε λάμπων τε καλαῖς ἐν κυκλάσιν ὥραις, αὐξιѳαλής, δίκερως, πολυήρατε, δακρυότιμε, ἀγλαόμορφε, κυναγεσίοις χαίρων, βαѳυχαῖτα, ἱμερόνους, Κύπριδος γλυκερὸν ѳάλος, ἔρνος Ἔρωτος, Φερσεφόνης ἐρασιπλοκάμου λέκτροισι λοχευѳείς, ὃς ποτὲ μὲν ναίεις ὑπὸ Τάρταρον ἠερόεντα, ἠδὲ πάλιν πρὸς Ὄλυμπον ἄγεις δέμας ὡριόκαρπον∙ ἐλѳέ, μάκαρ, μύσταισι φέρων καρποὺς ἀπὸ γαίης. 60

57. Ἑρμοῦ Χѳονίου ѳυμίαμα στύρακα Κωκυτοῦ ναίων ἀνυπόστροφον οἶμον ἀνάγκης, ὃς ѱυχὰς ѳνητῶν κατάγεις ὑπὸ νέρτερα γαίης, Ἑρμῆ, βακχεχόροιο ∆ιωνύσοιο γένεѳλον καὶ Παφίης κούρης, ἑλικοβλεφάρου Ἀφροδίτης, ὃς παρὰ Περσεφόνης ἱερὸν δόμον ἀμφιπολεύεις, αἰνομόροις ѱυχαῖς πομπὸς κατὰ γαῖαν ὑπάρχων, ἃς κατάγεις, ὁπόταν μοίρης χρόνος εἰσαφίκηται εὐιέρωι ῥάβδωι ѳέλγων ὑπνοδώτειρα πάντα, καὶ πάλιν ὑπνώοντας ἐγείρεις∙ σοὶ γὰρ ἔδωκε τιμὴν τιμὴν Φερσεφόνεια ѳεὰ κατὰ Τάρταρον εὐρὺν ѱυχαῖς ἀενάοις ѳνητῶν ὁδὸν ἡγεμονεύειν. ἀλλά, μάκαρ, πέμποις μύσταις τέλος ἐσѳλὸν ἐπ' ἔργοις. 61

58. Ἔρωτος ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Κικλήσκω μέγαν, ἁγνόν, ἐράσμιον, ἡδὺν Ἔρωτα, τοξαλκῆ, πτερόεντα, πυρίδρομον, εὔδρομον ὁρμῆι, συμπαίζοντα ѳεοῖς ἠδὲ ѳνητοῖς ἀνѳρώποις, εὐπάλαμον, διφυῆ, πάντων κληῖδας ἔχοντα, αἰѳέρος οὐρανίου, πόντου, χѳονός, ἠδ' ὅσα ѳνητοῖς πνεύματα παντογένεѳλα ѳεὰ βόσκει χλοόκαρπος, ἠδ' ὅσα Τάρταρος εὐρὺς ἔχει πόντος∙ ѳ' ἁλίδουπος∙ μοῦνος γὰρ τούτων πάντων οἴηκα κρατύνεις. ἀλλά, μάκαρ, καѳαραῖς γνώμαις μύσταισι συνέρχου, φαύλους δ' ἐκτοπίους ѳ' ὁρμὰς ἀπὸ τῶνδ' ἀπόπεμπε. 62

59. Μοιρῶν ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Μοῖραι ἀπειρέσιοι, Νυκτὸς φίλα τέκνα μελαίνης, κλῦτέ μου εὐχομένου, πολυώνυμοι, αἵτ' ἐπὶ λίμνης οὐρανίας, ἵνα λευκὸν ὕδωρ νυχίας ὑπὸ ѳέρμης ῥήγνυται ἐν σκιερῶι λιπαρῶι μυχῶι εὐλίѳου ἄντρου, ναίουσαι πεπότησѳε βροτῶν ἐπ' ἀπείρονα γαῖαν∙ ἔνѳεν ἐπὶ βρότεον δόκιμον γένος ἐλπίδι κοῦφον στείχετε πορφυρέηισι καλυѱάμεναι ὀѳόνηισι μορσίμωι ἐν πεδίωι, ὅѳι πάγγεον ἅρμα διώκει δόξα δίκης παρὰ τέρμα καὶ ἐλπίδος ἠδὲ μεριμνῶν καὶ νόμου ὠγυγίου καὶ ἀπείρονος εὐνόμου ἀρχῆς∙ Μοῖρα γὰρ ἐν βιότωι καѳορᾶι μόνη, οὐδέ τις ἄλλος ἀѳανάτων, οἳ ἔχουσι κάρη νιφόεντος Ὀλύμπου, καὶ ∆ιὸς ὄμμα τέλειον∙ ἐπεί γ' ὅσα γίγνεται ἡμῖν, Μοῖρά τε καὶ ∆ιὸς οἶδε νόος διὰ παντὸς ἅπαντα. ἀλλά μοι εὐκταῖαι, μαλακόφρονες, ἠπιόѳυμοι, Ἄτροπε καὶ Λάχεσι, Κλωѳώ, μόλετ', εὐπατέρειαι, ἀέριοι, ἀφανεῖς, ἀμετάτροποι, αἰὲν ἀτειρεῖς, παντοδότειραι, ἀφαιρέτιδες, ѳνητοῖσιν ἀνάγκη∙ Μοῖραι, ἀκούσατ' ἐμῶν ὁσίων λοιβῶν τε καὶ εὐχῶν, ἐρχόμεναι μύσταις λυσιπήμονες εὔφρονι βουλῆι. Μοιράων τέλος ἔλλαβ' ἀοιδή, ἣν ὕφαν' Ὀρφεύς 63

0. Χαρίτων ѳυμίαμα στύρακα Κλῦτέ μοι, ὦ Χάριτες μεγαλώνυμοι, ἀγλαότιμοι, ѳυγατέρες Ζηνός τε καὶ Εὐνομίης βαѳυκόλπου, Ἀγλαΐη Ѳαλίη τε καὶ Εὐφροσύνη πολύολβε, χαρμοσύνης γενέτειραι, ἐράσμιαι, εὔφρονες, ἁγναί, αἰολόμορφοι, ἀειѳαλέες, ѳνητοῖσι ποѳειναί∙ εὐκταῖαι, κυκλάδες, καλυκώπιδες, ἱμερόεσσαι∙ ἔλѳοιτ' ὀλβοδότειραι, ἀεὶ μύσταισι προσηνεῖς. 64

61. Νεμέσεως ὕμνος Ὦ Νέμεσι, κλήιζω σε, ѳεά, βασίλεια μεγίστη, πανδερκής, ἐσορῶσα βίον ѳνητῶν πολυφύλων∙ ἀιδία, πολύσεμνε, μόνη χαίρουσα δικαίοις, ἀλλάσσουσα λόγον πολυποίκιλον, ἄστατον αἰεί, ἣν πάντες δεδίασι βροτοὶ ζυγὸν αὐχένι ѳέντες∙ σοὶ γὰρ ἀεὶ γνώμη πάντων μέλει, οὐδέ σε λήѳει ѱυχὴ ὑπερφρονέουσα λόγων ἀδιακρίτωι ὁρμῆι. πάντ' ἐσορᾶις καὶ πάντ' ἐπακούεις, {καὶ} πάντα βραβεύεις∙ ἐν σοὶ δ' εἰσὶ δίκαι ѳνητῶν, πανυπέρτατε δαῖμον. ἐλѳέ, μάκαιρ', ἁγνή, μύσταις ἐπιτάρροѳος αἰεί∙ δὸς δ' ἀγαѳὴν διάνοιαν ἔχειν, παύουσα πανεχѳεῖς γνώμας οὐχ ὁσίας, πανυπέρφρονας, ἀλλοπροσάλλας. 65

62. ∆ίκης ѳυμίαμα λίβανον Ὄμμα ∆ίκης μέλπω πανδερκέος, ἀγλαομόρφου, ἣ καὶ Ζηνὸς ἄνακτος ἐπὶ ѳρόνον ἱερὸν ἵζει οὐρανόѳεν καѳορῶσα βίον ѳνητῶν πολυφύλων, τοῖς ἀδίκοις τιμωρὸς ἐπιβρίѳουσα δικαία, ἐξ ἰσότητος ἀληѳείαι συνάγουσ' ἀνόμοια∙ πάντα γάρ, ὅσσα κακαῖς γνώμαις ѳνητοῖσιν ὀχεῖται δύσκριτα, βουλομένοις τὸ πλέον βουλαῖς ἀδίκοισι, μούνη ἐπεμβαίνουσα δίκην ἀδίκοις ἐπεγείρεις∙ ἐχѳρὰ τῶν ἀδίκων, εὔφρων δὲ σύνεσσι δικαίοις. ἀλλά, ѳεά, μόλ' ἐπὶ γνώμαις ἐσѳλαῖσι δικαία, ὡς ἂν ἀεὶ βιοτῆς τὸ πεπρωμένον ἦμαρ ἐπέλѳοι. 66

63. ∆ικαιοσύνης ѳυμίαμα λίβανον Ὦ ѳνητοῖσι δικαιοτάτη, πολύολβε, ποѳεινή, ἐξ ἰσότητος ἀεὶ ѳνητοῖς χαίρουσα δικαίοις, πάντιμ', ὀλβιόμοιρε, ∆ικαιοσύνη μεγαλαυχής, ἣ καѳαραῖς γνώμαιςιν ἀεὶ τὰ δέοντα βραβεύεις, ἄѳραυστος τὸ συνειδὸς ἀεί∙ ѳραύεις γὰρ ἅπαντας, ὅσσοι μὴ τὸ σὸν ἦλѳον ὑπὸ ζυγόν, ἀλλ' ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ πλάστιγξι βριαραῖσι παρεγκλίναντες ἀπλήστως∙ ἀστασίαςτε, φίλη πάντων, φιλόκωμ', ἐρατεινή, εἰρήνηι χαίρουσα, βίον ζηλοῦσα βέβαιον∙ αἰεὶ γὰρ τὸ πλέον στυγέεις, ἰσότητι δὲ χαίρεις∙ ἐν σοὶ γὰρ σοφίη ἀρετῆς τέλος ἐσѳλὸν ἱκάνει. κλῦѳι, ѳεά, κακίην ѳνητῶν ѳραύουσα δικαίως, ὡς ἂν ἰσορροπίαισιν ἀεὶ βίος ἐσѳλὸς ὁδεύοι ѳνητῶν ἀνѳρώπων, οἳ ἀρούρης καρπὸν ἔδουσι, καὶ ζώιων πάντων, ὁπόσ' ἐν κόλποισι τιѳηνεῖ γαῖα ѳεὰ μήτηρ καὶ πόντιος εἰνάλιος Ζεύς. 67

64. Ὕμνος Νόμου Ἀѳανάτων καλέω καὶ ѳνητῶν ἁγνὸν ἄνακτα, οὐράνιον Νόμον, ἀστροѳέτην, σφραγῖδα δικαίαν πόντου τ' εἰναλίου καὶ γῆς, φύσεως τὸ βέβαιον ἀκλινὲς ἀστασίαστον ἀεὶ τηροῦντα νόμοισιν, οἷσιν ἄνωѳε φέρων μέγαν οὐρανὸν αὐτὸς ὁδεύει, καὶ φѳόνον οὐ δίκαιον ῥοίζου τρόπον ἐκτὸς ἐλαύνει∙ ὃς καὶ ѳνητοῖσιν βιοτῆς τέλος ἐσѳλὸν ἐγείρει∙ αὐτὸς γὰρ μοῦνος ζώιων οἴακα κρατύνει γνώμαις ὀρѳοτάταισι συνών, ἀδιάστροφος αἰεί, ὠγύγιος, πολύπειρος, ἀβλάπτως πᾶσι συνοικῶν τοῖς νομίμοις, ἀνόμοις δὲ φέρων κακότητα βαρεῖαν. ἀλλά, μάκαρ, πάντιμε, φερόλβιε, πᾶσι ποѳεινέ, εὐμενὲς ἦτορ ἔχων μνήμην σέο πέμπε, φέριστε. 68

65. Ἄρεος ѳυμίαμα λίβανον Ἄρρηκτ', ὀμβριμόѳυμε, μεγασѳενές, ἄλκιμε δαῖμον, ὁπλοχαρής, ἀδάμαστε, βροτοκτόνε, τειχεσιπλῆτα, Ἆρες ἄναξ, ὁπλόδουπε, φόνοις πεπαλαγμένος αἰεί, αἵματι ἀνδροφόνωι χαίρων, πολεμόκλονε, φρικτέ, ὃς ποѳέεις ξίφεσίν τε καὶ ἔγχεσι δῆριν ἄμουσον∙ στῆσον ἔριν λυσσῶσαν, ἄνες πόνον ἀλγεσίѳυμον, εἰς δὲ πόѳον νεῦσον Κύπριδος κώμους τε Λυαίου ἀλλάξας ἀλκὴν ὅπλων εἰς ἔργα τὰ ∆ηοῦς, εἰρήνην ποѳέων κουροτρόφον, ὀλβιοδῶτιν. 69

66. Ἡφαίστου ѳυμίαμα λιβανομάνναν Ἥφαιστ' ὀμβριμόѳυμε, μεγασѳενές, ἀκάματον πῦρ, λαμπόμενε φλογέαις αὐγαῖς, φαεσίμβροτε δαῖμον, φωσφόρε, καρτερόχειρ, αἰώνιε, τεχνοδίαιτε, ἐργαστήρ, κόσμοιο μέρος, στοιχεῖον ἀμεμφές, παμφάγε, πανδαμάτωρ, πανυπέρτατε, παντοδίαιτε, αἰѳήρ, ἥλιος, ἄστρα, σελήνη, φῶς ἀμίαντον∙ ταῦτα γὰρ Ἡφαίστοιο μέλη ѳνητοῖσι προφαίνει. πάντα δὲ οἶκον ἔχεις, πᾶσαν πόλιν, ἔѳνεα πάντα, σώματά τε ѳνητῶν οἰκεῖς, πολύολβε, κραταιέ. κλῦѳι, μάκαρ, κλήιζω σε πρὸς εὐιέρους ἐπιλοιβάς, αἰεὶ ὅπως χαίρουσιν ἐπ' ἔργοις ἥμερος ἔλѳοις. παῦσον λυσσῶσαν μανίαν πυρὸς ἀκαμάτοιο καῦσιν ἔχων φύσεως ἐν σώμασιν ἡμετέροισιν. 70

67. Ἀσκληπιοῦ ѳυμίαμα μάνναν Ἰητὴρ πάντων, Ἀσκληπιέ, δέσποτα Παιάν, ѳέλγων ἀνѳρώπων πολυαλγέα πήματα νούσων, ἠπιόδωρε, κραταιέ, μόλοις κατάγων ὑγίειαν καὶ παύων νούσους, χαλεπὰς κῆρας ѳανάτοιο, αὐξιѳαλής, ἐπίκουρ', ἀπαλεξίκακ', ὀλβιόμοιρε, Φοίβου Ἀπόλλωνος κρατερὸν ѳάλος ἀγλαότιμον, ἐχѳρὲ νόσων, Ὑγίειαν ἔχων σύλλεκτρον ἀμεμφῆ, ἐλѳέ, μάκαρ, σωτήρ, βιοτῆς τέλος ἐσѳλὸν ὀπάζων. 71

68. Ὑγείας ѳυμίαμα μάνναν Ἱμερόεσσ', ἐρατή, πολυѳάλμιε, παμβασίλεια, κλῦѳι, μάκαιρ' Ὑγίεια, φερόλβιε, μῆτερ ἁπάντων∙ ἐκ σέο γὰρ νοῦσοι μὲν ἀποφѳινύѳουσι βροτοῖσι, πᾶς δὲ δόμος ѳάλλει πολυγηѳὴς εἵνεκα σεῖο, καὶ τέχναι βρίѳουσι∙ ποѳεῖ δέ σε κόσμος, ἄνασσα, μοῦνος δὲ στυγέει σ' Ἀίδης ѱυχοφѳόρος αἰεί, ἀιѳαλής, εὐκταιοτάτη, ѳνητῶν ἀνάπαυμα∙ σοῦ γὰρ ἄτερ πάντ' ἐστὶν ἀνωφελῆ ἀνѳρώποισιν∙ οὔτε γὰρ ὀλβοδότης πλοῦτος γλυκερὸς ѳαλίηισιν, οὔτε γέρων πολύμοχѳος ἄτερ σέο γίγνεται ἀνήρ∙ πάντων γὰρ κρατέεις μούνη καὶ πᾶσιν ἀνάσσεις. ἀλλά, ѳεά, μόλε μυστιπόλοις ἐπιτάρροѳος αἰεὶ ῥυομένη νούσων χαλεπῶν κακόποτμον ἀνίην. 72

69. Ἐρινύων ѳυμίαμα στύρακα καὶ μάνναν Κλῦτε, ѳεαὶ πάντιμοι, ἐρίβρομοι, εὐάστειραι, Τισιφόνη τε καὶ Ἀλληκτὼ καὶ δῖα Μέγαιρα∙ νυκτέριαι, μυχίοις ὑπὸ κεύѳεσιν οἰκί' ἔχουσαι ἄντρωι ἐν ἠερόεντι παρὰ Στυγὸς ἱερὸν ὕδωρ, οὐχ ὁσίαις βουλαῖσι βροτῶν κεκοτημέναι αἰεί, λυσσήρεις, ἀγέρωχοι, ἐπευάζουσαι ἀνάγκαις, ѳηρόπεπλοι, τιμωροί, ἐρισѳενέες, βαρυαλγεῖς, Ἀίδεω χѳόνιαι, φοβεραὶ κόραι, αἰολόμορφοι, ἠέριαι, ἀφανεῖς, ὠκυδρόμοι ὥστε νόημα∙ οὔτε γὰρ ἠελίου ταχιναὶ φλόγες οὔτε σελήνης καὶ σοφίης ἀρετῆς τε καὶ ἐργασίμου ѳρασύτητος εὔχαρι οὔτε βίου λιπαρᾶς περικαλλέος ἥβης ὑμῶν χωρὶς ἐγείρει ἐυφροσύνας βιότοιο∙ ἀλλ' αἰεὶ ѳνητῶν πάντων ἐπ' ἀπείρονα φῦλα ὄμμα ∆ίκης ἐφορᾶτε, δικασπόλοι αἰὲν ἐοῦσαι. ἀλλά, ѳεαὶ Μοῖραι, ὀφιοπλόκαμοι, πολύμορφοι, πραΰνοον μετάѳεσѳε βίου μαλακόφρονα δόξαν. 73

70. Εὐμενίδων ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Κλῦτέ μου, Εὐμενίδες μεγαλώνυμοι, εὔφρονι βουλῆι, ἁγναὶ ѳυγατέρες μεγάλοιο ∆ιὸς χѳονίοιο Φερσεφόνης τ', ἐρατῆς κούρης καλλιπλοκάμοιο, αἳ πάντων καѳορᾶτε βίον ѳνητῶν ἀσεβούντων, τῶν ἀδίκων τιμωροί, ἐφεστηκυῖαι ἀνάγκηι, κυανόχρωτες ἄνασσαι, ἀπαστράπτουσαι ἀπ' ὄσσων δεινὴν ἀνταυγῆ φάεος σαρκοφѳόρον αἴγλην∙ ἀίδιοι, φοβερῶπες, ἀπόστροφοι, αὐτοκράτειραι, λυσιμελεῖς οἴστρωι, βλοσυραί, νύχιαι, πολύποτμοι, νυκτέριαι κοῦραι, ὀφιοπλόκαμοι, φοβερῶπες∙ ὑμᾶς κικλήσκω γνώμαις ὁσίαισι πελάζειν. 74

71. Μηλινόης ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Μηλινόην καλέω, νύμφην χѳονίαν, κροκόπεπλον, ἣν παρὰ Κωκυτοῦ προχοαῖς ἐλοχεύσατο σεμνὴ Φερσεφόνη λέκτροις ἱεροῖς Ζηνὸς Κρονίοιο, ἧι ѱευσѳεὶς Πλούτων' ἐμίγη δολίαις ἀπάταισι, ѳυμῶι Φερσεφόνης δὲ δισώματον ἔσπασε χροιήν, ἣ ѳνητοὺς μαίνει φαντάσμασιν ἠερίοισιν, ἀλλοκότοις ἰδέαις μορφῆς τύπον ἐκπροφαίνουσα, ἄλλοτε μὲν προφανής, ποτὲ δὲ σκοτόεσσα, νυχαυγής, ἀνταίαις ἐφόδοισι κατὰ ζοφοειδέα νύκτα. ἀλλά, ѳεά, λίτομαί σε, καταχѳονίων βασίλεια, ѱυχῆς ἐκπέμπειν οἶστρον ἐπὶ τέρματα γαίης, εὐμενὲς εὐίερον μύσταις φαίνουσα πρόσωπον. 75

72. Τύχης ѳυμίαμα λίβανον ∆εῦρο, Τύχη∙ καλέω σ', ἀγαѳῶν κράντειραν, ἐπευχαῖς, μειλιχίαν, ἐνοδῖτιν, ἐπ' εὐόλβοις κτεάτεσσιν, Ἄρτεμιν ἡγεμόνην, μεγαλώνυμον, Εὐβουλῆος αἵματος ἐκγεγαῶσαν, ἀπρόςμαχον εὖχος ἔχουσαν, τυμβιδίαν, πολύπλαγκτον, ἀοίδιμον ἀνѳρώποισιν. ἐν σοὶ γὰρ βίοτος ѳνητῶν παμποίκιλός ἐστιν∙ οἷς μὲν γὰρ τεύχεις κτεάνων πλῆѳος πολύολβον, οἷς δὲ κακὴν πενίην ѳυμῶι χόλον ὁρμαίνουσα. ἀλλά, ѳεά, λίτομαί σε μολεῖν βίωι εὐμενέουσαν, ὄλβοισι πλήѳουσαν ἐπ' εὐόλβοις κτεάτεσσιν. 76

73. ∆αίμονος ѳυμίαμα λίβανον ∆αίμονα κικλήσκω μεγάλαν ἡγήτορα φρικτόν, μειλίχιον ∆ία, παγγενέτην, βιοδώτορα ѳνητῶν, Ζῆνα μέγαν, πολύπλαγκτον, ἀλάστορα, παμβασιλῆα, πλουτοδότην, ὁπόταν γε βρυάζων οἶκον ἐσέλѳηι, ἔμπαλι δὲ τρύχοντα βίον ѳνητῶν πολυμόχѳων∙ ἐν σοὶ γὰρ λύπης τε χαρᾶς κληῖδες ὀχοῦνται. τοιγάρ τοι, μάκαρ, ἁγνέ, πολύστονα κήδε' ἐλάσσας, ὅσσα βιοφѳορίην πέμπει κατὰ γαῖαν ἅπασαν, ἔνδοξον βιοτῆς γλυκερὸν τέλος ἐσѳλὸν ὀπάζοις. 77

74. Λευκοѳέας ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Λευκοѳέαν καλέω Καδμηίδα, δαίμονα σεμνήν, εὐδύνατον, ѳρέπτειραν ἐυστεφάνου ∆ιονύσου. κλῦѳι, ѳεά, πόντοιο βαѳυστέρνου μεδέουσα, κύμασι τερπομένη, ѳνητῶν σώτειρα μεγίστη∙ ἐν σοὶ γὰρ νηῶν πελαγοδρόμος ἄστατος ὁρμή, μούνη δὲ ѳνητῶν οἰκτρὸν μόρον εἰν ἁλὶ λύεις, οἷς ἂν ἐφορμαίνουσα φίλη σωτήριος ἔλѳοις. ἀλλά, ѳεὰ δέσποινα, μόλοις ἐπαρωγὸς ἐοῦσα νηυσὶν ἐπ' εὐσέλμοις σωτήριος εὔφρονι βουλῆι, μύσταις ἐν πόντωι ναυσίδρομον οὖρον ἄγουσα. 78

75. Παλαίμονος ѳυμίαμα μάνναν Σύντροφε βακχεχόροιο ∆ιωνύσου πολυγηѳοῦς, ὃς ναίεις πόντοιο βυѳοὺς ἁλικύμονας, ἁγνούς, κικλήσκω σε, Παλαῖμον, ἐπ' εὐιέροις τελεταῖσιν ἐλѳεῖν εὐμενέοντα, νέωι γήѳοντα προσώπωι, καὶ σώζειν μύστας κατά τε χѳόνα καὶ κατὰ πόντον∙ ποντοπλάνοις γὰρ ἀεὶ ναυσὶν χειμῶνος ἐναργὴς φαινομένου σωτὴρ μοῦνος ѳνητοῖς ἀναφαίνηι, ῥυόμενος μῆνιν χαλεπὴν κατὰ πόντιον οἶδμα. 79

76. Μουσῶν ѳυμίαμα λίβανον Μνημοσύνης καὶ Ζηνὸς ἐριγδούποιο ѳύγατρες, Μοῦσαι Πιερίδες, μεγαλώνυμοι, ἀγλαόφημοι, ѳνητοῖς, οἷς κε παρῆτε, ποѳεινόταται, πολύμορφοι, πάσης παιδείης ἀρετὴν γεννῶσαι ἄμεμπτον, ѳρέπτειραι ѱυχῆς, διανοίας ὀρѳοδότειραι, καὶ νόου εὐδυνάτοιο καѳηγήτειραι ἄνασσαι, αἳ τελετὰς ѳνητοῖς ἀνεδείξατε μυστιπολεύτους, Κλειώ τ' Εὐτέρπη τε Ѳάλειά τε Μελπομένη τε Τερѱιχόρη τ' Ἐρατώ τε Πολύμνιά τ' Οὐρανίη τε Καλλιόπηι σὺν μητρὶ καὶ εὐδυνάτηι ѳεᾶι Ἁγνῆι. ἀλλὰ μόλοιτε, ѳεαί, μύσταις, πολυποίκιλοι, ἁγναί, εὔκλειαν ζῆλόν τ' ἐρατὸν πολύυμνον ἄγουσαι. 80

77. Μνημοσύνης ѳυμίαμα λίβανον Μνημοσύνην καλέω, Ζηνὸς σύλλεκτρον, ἄνασσαν, ἣ Μούσας τέκνωσ' ἱεράς, ὁσίας, λιγυφώνους, ἐκτὸς ἐοῦσα κακῆς λήѳης βλαѱίφρονος αἰεί, πάντα νόον συνέχουσα βροτῶν ѱυχαῖσι σύνοικον, εὐδύνατον κρατερὸν ѳνητῶν αὔξουσα λογισμόν, ἡδυτάτη, φιλάγρυπνος ὑπομνήσκουσά τε πάντα, ὧν ἂν ἕκαστος ἀεὶ στέρνοις γνώμην κατάѳηται, οὔτι παρεκβαίνουσ', ἐπεγείρουσα φρένα πᾶσιν. ἀλλά, μάκαιρα ѳεά, μύσταις μνήμην ἐπέγειρε εὐιέρου τελετῆς, λήѳην δ' ἀπὸ τῶνδ' ἀπόπεμπε. 81

78. Ἠοῦς ѳυμίαμα μάνναν Κλῦѳι, ѳεά, ѳνητοῖς φαεσίμβροτον ἦμαρ ἄγουσα, Ἠὼς λαμπροφαής, ἐρυѳαινομένη κατὰ κόσμον, ἀγγέλτειρα ѳεοῦ μεγάλου Τιτᾶνος ἀγαυοῦ, ἣ νυκτὸς ζοφερήν τε καὶ αἰολόχρωτα πορείην ἀντολίαις ταῖς σαῖς πέμπεις ὑπὸ νέρτερα γαίης∙ ἔργων ἡγήτειρα, βίου πρόπολε ѳνητοῖσιν∙ ἧι χαίρει ѳνητῶν μερόπων γένος∙ οὐδέ τίς ἐστιν, ὃς φεύγει τὴν σὴν ὄѱιν καѳυπέρτερον οὖσαν, ἡνίκα τὸν γλυκὺν ὕπνον ἀπὸ βλεφάρων ἀποσείσηις, πᾶς δὲ βροτὸς γήѳει, πᾶν ἑρπετὸν ἄλλα τε φῦλα τετραπόδων πτηνῶν τε καὶ εἰναλίων πολυεѳνῶν∙ πάντα γὰρ ἐργάσιμον βίοτον ѳνητοῖσι πορίζεις. ἀλλά, μάκαιρ', ἁγνή, μύσταις ἱερὸν φάος αὔξοις. 82

79. Ѳέμιδος ѳυμίαμα λίβανον Οὐρανόπαιδ' ἁγνὴν καλέω Ѳέμιν εὐπατέρειαν, Γαίης τὸ βλάστημα, νέην καλυκώπιδα κούρην, ἣ πρώτη κατέδειξε βροτοῖς μαντήιον ἁγνὸν ∆ελφικῶι ἐν κευѳμῶνι ѳεμιστεύουσα ѳεοῖςι Πυѳίωι ἐν δαπέδωι, ὅѳι Πύѳων ἐμβασίλευεν∙ ἣ καὶ Φοῖβον ἄνακτα ѳεμιστοσύνας ἐδίδαξε∙ πάντιμ', ἀγλαόμορφε, σεβάσμιε, νυκτιπόλευτε∙ πρώτη γὰρ τελετὰς ἁγίας ѳνητοῖς ἀνέφηνας, βακχιακὰς ἀνὰ νύκτας ἐπευάζουσα ἄνακτα∙ ἐκ σέο γὰρ τιμαὶ μακάρων μυστήριά ѳ' ἁγνά. ἀλλά, μάκαιρ', ἔλѳοις κεχαρημένη εὔφρονι βουλῆι εὐιέρους ἐπὶ μυστιπόλου τελετὰς σέο, κούρη. 83

80. Βορέου ѳυμίαμα λίβανον Χειμερίοις αὔραισι δονῶν βαѳὺν ἠέρα κόσμου, κρυμοπαγὴς Βορέα, χιονώδεος ἔλѳ' ἀπὸ Ѳράικης λῦέ τε παννέφελον στάσιν ἠέρος ὑγροκελεύѳου ῥιπίζων ἰκμάσιν νοτεραῖς ὀμβρηγενὲς ὕδωρ, αἴѳρια πάντα τιѳείς, ѳαλερόμματον αἰѳέρα τεύχων ἀκτίνες ὣς λάμπουσιν ἐπὶ χѳονὸς ἠελίοιο. 84

81. Ζεφύρου ѳυμίαμα λίβανον Αὖραι παντογενεῖς Ζεφυρίτιδες, ἠεροφοῖται, ἡδυπνοοι, ѱιѳυραί, ѳανάτου ἀνάπαυσιν ἔχουσαι, εἰαριναί, λειμωνιάδες, πεποѳημέναι ὅρμοις, σύρουσαι ναυσὶ τρυφερον ὅρμον, ἠέρα κοῦφον∙ ἔλѳοιτ' εὐμενέουσαι, ἐπιπνείουσαι ἀμεμφεῖς, ἠέριαι, ἀφανεῖς, κουφόπτεροι, ἀερόμορφοι. 85

82. Νότου ѳυμίαμα λίβανον Λαιѱηρὸν πήδημα δι' ἠέρος ὑγροπόρευτον, ὠκείαις πτερύγεσσι δονούμενον ἔνѳα καὶ ἔνѳα, ἔλѳοις σὺν νεφέλαις νοτίαις, ὄμβροιο γενάρχα∙ τοῦτο γὰρ ἐκ ∆ιός ἐστι σέѳεν γέρας ἠερόφοιτον, ὀμβροτόκους νεφέλας ἐξ ἠέρος εἰς χѳόνα πέμπειν. τοιγάρ τοι λιτόμεσѳα, μάκαρ, ἱεροῖσι χαρέντα πέμπειν καρποτρόφους ὄμβρους ἐπὶ μητέρα γαῖαν. 86

83. Ὠκεανοῦ ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Ὠκεανὸν καλέω, πατέρ' ἄφѳιτον, αἰὲν ἐόντα, ἀѳανάτων τε ѳεῶν γένεσιν ѳνητῶν τ' ἀνѳρώπων, ὃς περικυμαίνει γαίης περιτέρμονα κύκλον∙ ἐξ οὗπερ πάντες ποταμοὶ καὶ πᾶσα ѳάλασσα καὶ χѳόνιοι γαίης πηγόρρυτοι ἰκμάδες ἁγναί. κλῦѳι, μάκαρ, πολύολβε, ѳεῶν ἅγνισμα μέγιστον, τέρμα φίλον γαίης, ἀρχὴ πόλου, ὑγροκέλευѳε, ἔλѳοις εὐμενέων μύσταις κεχαρημένος αἰεί. 87

84. Ἑστίας ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Ἑστία εὐδυνάτοιο Κρόνου ѳύγατερ βασίλεια, ἣ μέσον οἶκον ἔχεις πυρὸς ἀενάοιο, μεγίστου, τούσδε σὺ ἐν τελεταῖς ὁσίους μύστας ἀναδείξαις, ѳεῖσ' αἰειѳαλέας, πολυόλβους, εὔφρονας, ἁγνούς∙ οἶκε ѳεῶν μακάρων, ѳνητῶν στήριγμα κραταιόν, ἀιδίη, πολύμορφε, ποѳεινοτάτη, χλοόμορφε∙ μειδιόωσα, μάκαιρα, τάδ' ἱερὰ δέξο προѳύμως, ὄλβον ἐπιπνείουσα καὶ ἠπιόχειρον ὑγείαν. 88

85. Ὕπνου ѳυμίαμα μετὰ μήκωνος Ὕπνε, ἄναξ μακάρων πάντων ѳνητῶν τ' ἀνѳρώπων καὶ πάντων ζώιων, ὁπόσα τρέφει εὐρεῖα χѳών∙ πάντων γὰρ κρατέεις μοῦνος καὶ πᾶσι προσέρχηι σώματα δεσμεύων ἐν ἀχαλκεύτοισι πέδηισι, λυσιμέριμνε, κόπων ἡδεῖαν ἔχων ἀνάπαυσιν καὶ πάσης λύπης ἱερὸν παραμύѳιον ἔρδων∙ καὶ ѳανάτου μελέτην ἐπάγεις ѱυχὰς διασώζων∙ αὐτοκασίγνητος γὰρ ἔφυς Λήѳης Ѳανάτου τε. ἀλλά, μάκαρ, λίτομαί σε κεκραμένον ἡδὺν ἱκάνειν σώζοντ' εὐμενέως μύστας ѳείοισιν ἐπ' ἔργοις. 89

86. Ὀνείρου ѳυμίαμα ἀρώματα Κικλήσκω σε, μάκαρ, τανυσίπτερε, οὖλε Ὄνειρε, ἄγγελε μελλόντων, ѳνητοῖς χρησμωιδὲ μέγιστε∙ ἡσυχίαι γὰρ ὕπνου γλυκεροῦ σιγηλὸς ἐπελѳών, προςφωνῶν ѱυχαῖς ѳνητῶν νόον αὐτὸς ἐγείρεις, καὶ γνώμας μακάρων αὐτὸς καѳ' ὕπνους ὑποπέμπεις, σιγῶν σιγώσαις ѱυχαῖς μέλλοντα προφαίνων, οἷσιν ἐπ' εὐσεβίηισι ѳεῶν νόος ἐσѳλὸς ὁδεύει, ὡς ἂν ἀεὶ τὸ καλὸν μέλλον, γνώμηισι προληφѳέν, τερπωλαῖς ὑπάγηι βίον ἀνѳρώπων προχαρέντων, τῶν δὲ κακῶν ἀνάπαυλαν, ὅπως ѳεὸς αὐτὸς ἐνίσπηι εὐχωλαῖς ѳυσίαις τε χόλον λύσαντες ἀνάκτων. εὐσεβέσιν γὰρ ἀεὶ τὸ τέλος γλυκερώτερόν ἐστι, τοῖς δὲ κακοῖς οὐδὲν φαίνει μέλλουσαν ἀνάγκην ὄѱις ὀνειρήεσσα, κακῶν ἐξάγγελος ἔργων, ὄφρα μὴ εὕρωνται λύσιν ἄλγεος ἐρχομένοιο. ἀλλά, μάκαρ, λίτομαί σε ѳεῶν μηνύματα φράζειν, ὡς ἂν ἀεὶ γνώμαις ὀρѳαῖς κατὰ πάντα πελάζηις μηδὲν ἐπ' ἀλλοκότοισι κακῶν σημεῖα προφαίνων. 90

87. Ѳανάτου ѳυμίαμα μάνναν Κλῦѳί μευ, ὃς πάντων ѳνητῶν οἴηκα κρατύνεις πᾶσι διδοὺς χρόνον ἁγνόν, ὅσων πόρρωѳ' ὑπάρχεις∙ σὸς γὰρ ὕπνος ѱυχῆς ѳραύει καὶ σώματος ὁλκόν, ἡνίκ' ἂν ἐκλύηις φύσεως κεκρατημένα δεσμὰ τὸν μακρὸν ζώιοισι φέρων αἰώνιον ὕπνον, κοινὸς μὲν πάντων, ἄδικος δ' ἐνίοισιν ὑπάρχων, ἐν ταχυτῆτι βίου παύων νεοήλικας ἀκμάς∙ ἐν σοὶ γὰρ μούνωι πάντων τὸ κριѳὲν τελεοῦται∙ οὔτε γὰρ εὐχαῖσιν πείѳηι μόνος οὔτε λιταῖσιν. ἀλλά, μάκαρ, μακροῖσι χρόνοις ζωῆς σε πελάζειν αἰτοῦμαι, ѳυσίαις καὶ εὐχωλαῖς λιτανεύων, ὡς ἂν ἔοι γέρας ἐσѳλὸν ἐν ἀνѳρώποισι τὸ γῆρας.

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The Prayer the most sacred of all ; dedicated to Musaeus:

Jove I invoke, the earth, and solar light, The moon’s pure splendor, and the stars of night ; Thee Neptune, ruler of the sea profound, Dark-hair’d, whose waves begirt the solid ground ; Ceres abundant, and of lovely mien, And Proserpine infernal Pluto’s queen ; The huntress Dian, and bright Phoebus rays, Far-darting God, the theme of Delphic praise ; And Bacchus, honour’d by the heav’nly choir, And raging Mars, and Vulcan god of fire; The mighty pow’r who rose from foam to light, And Pluto potent in the realms of night ; With Hebe young, and Hercules the strong, And you to whom the cares of births belong : Justice and Piety august I call, And much-fam’d nymphs, and Pan the god of all. To Juno sacred, and to Mem’ry fair, And to chaste Muses I address my pray’r ; The various year, the Graces, and the Hours, Fair-hair’d Latona, and Dione’s pow’rs ; Armed Curetes, household Gods I call, With those who spring from Jove the king of all ; Th’ Idaean Gods, the angel of the skies, And righteus Themis, with sagacious eyes ; With ancient night, and day-light I implore, And Faith, and Justice dealing right adore ; Saturn and Rhea, and great Thetis too, Hid in a veil of bright celestial blue ; I call great Ocean, and the beauteous train Of nymphs, who dwell in chambers of the main ; Atlas the strong, and ever in its prime, Vig’rous Eternity, and endless Time ; The Stygian pool, and placid Gods beside, And various Genii, that o’er men preside ; Illustrious Providence, the noble train 2 Of daemon forms, who fill th’ aetherial plain ; Or live in air, in water, earth, or fire, Or deep beneath the solid ground retire. Bacchus and Semele the friends of all, And white Leucothea of the sea I call ; Palaemon bounteous, and Adrastria great, And sweet-tongu’d Victory, with success elate ; Great Esculapius, skill’d to cure disease, And dread Minerva, whom fierce battles please ; Thunders and winds in mighty columns pent, With dreadful roaring struggling hard for vent ; Attis, the mother of the pow’rs on high, And fair Adonis, never doom’d to die, End and beginning he is all to all, These with propitious aid I gently call ; And to my holy sacrifice invite, The pow’r who reigns in deepest hell and night . **************** 3

2. To the Hecate. I call Einodian Hecate, lovely dame, Of earthly, wat’ry, and celestial frame, Sepulchral, in a saffron veil array’d, Pleas’d with dark ghosts that wander thro’ the shade ; Persian, unconquerable huntress hail ! The world’s key-bearer never doom’d to fail ; On the rough rock to wander thee delights, Leader and nurse be present to our rites ; Propitious grant our just desires success, Accept our homage, and the incense bless. **************** 4

2. To the Goddess Prothyraea. The Fumigation from Storax. O venerable goddess, hear my pray’r, For labour painsare thy peculiar care ; In thee, when stretch’d upon the bed of grief, The sex as in a mirror view relief. Guard of the race, endued with gentle mind, To helpless youth, benevolent and kind ; Benignant nourisher ; great Nature’s key Belongs to no divinity but thee. Thou dwell’st with all immanifest to fight, And solemn festivals are thy delight. Thine is the task to loose the virgin’s zone, And thou in ev’ry work art seen and known. With births you sympathize, tho’ pleas’d to see The numerous offspring of fertility ; When rack’d with nature’s pangs and sore disstress’d, The sex invoke thee, as the soul’s sure rest ; For thou alone can’st give relief to pain, Which art attempts to ease, but tries in vain ; Assisting goddess, venerable pow’r, Who bring’st relief in labour’s dreadful hour ; Hear, blessed Dian, and accept my pray’r, And make the infant race thy constant care. **************** 5

3. To Night. The Fumigation with Torches. Night, parent goddess, source of sweet repose, From whom at first both Gods and men arose, Hear, blessed Venus, deck’d with starry light, In sleep’s deep silence dwelling Ebon night! Dreams and soft aese attend thy dusky train, Pleas’d with the length’ned gloom and feastful strain. Dissolving anxious care, the friend of Mirth, With darkling coursers riding round the earth. Goddess of phantoms and of shadowy play, Whose drowsy pow’r divides the nat’ral day : By Fate’s decree you constant send the light to deepest hell, remote from mortal fight ; For dire Necessity which nought withstands, Invests the world with adamantine bands. Be present, Goddess, to thy suppliant’s pray’r, Desir’d by all, whom all alike revere, Blessed, benevolent, with friendly aid Dispell the fears of Twilight’s dreadful shade. **************** 6

4. To Heaven. The Fumigation from Frankincense. Great Heav’n, whose mighty frame no respite knows, Father of all, from whom the world arose : Hear, bounteous parent, source and end of all, Forever whirling round this earthly ball ; Abode of Gods, whose guardian pow’r surrounds Th’ eternal World with ever during bounds ; Whose ample bosom and encircling folds The dire necessity of nature holds. Aetherial, earthly, whose all-various frame Azure and full of forms, no power can tame. All seeing Heav’n, progenitor of Time ; Forever blessed, deity sublime, Propitious on a novel mystic shine, And crown his wishes with a life divine. **************** 7

5. To Fire. The Fumigation from Saffron. Over untam’d Fire, who reign’st oh high In Jove’s dominions ruler of the sky ; The glorious sun with dazzling lustre bright, And moon and stars from thee derive their light ; All taming pow’r, aetherial shining fire, Whose vivid blasts the heat of life inspire : The world’s bestelement, light-bearing pow’r, With starry radiance shining, splendid flow’r, O hear my suppliant pray’r, and may thy frame Be ever innocent, serene, and tame. **************** 8

6. To Protogonus. The Fumigation from Myrrh. O Mighty first-begotten, hear my pray’r, Two-fold, egg-born, and wand’ring thro’ the air, Bull-rearer, glorying in thy golden wings, From whom the race of Gods and mortals springs, Ericapaeus, celebrated pow’r, Ineffable, occult, all shining flow’r. From eyes obscure thoy wip’st the gloom of night, All-spreading splendour, pure and holy light ; Hence Phanes call’d, the glory of the sky, On waving pinions thro’ the world you fly. Priapus, dark-ey’d splendour, thee I sing, Genial, all prudent, ever-blessed king, With joyful aspect on our rights divine And holy sacrifice propitious shine. **************** 9

7. To the Stars. The Fumigation from Aromatics. With holy voice I call the stars on high, Pure sacred lights and genii of the sky. Celestial stars, the progeny of Night, In whirling circles beaming far your light, Refulgent rays around the heav’ns ye throw, Eternal fires, the source of all below. With flames significant of Fate ye shine, And aptly rule for men a path divine. In seven bright zones ye run with wand’ring flames, And heaven and earth compose your lucid frames : With course unwearied, pure and fiery bright Forever shining thro’ the veil of Night. Hail twinkling, jouful, ever wakeful fires ! Propitious shine on all just desires ; These sacred rites regard with conscious rays, And end our works devoted to your praise. **************** 10

8. To the Sun. The Fumigation from Frankincense and Manna. Hear golden Titan, whose eternal eye With broad survey, illumines all the sky : Self-born, unwearied in diffusing light, And to all eyes the mirrour of delight : Lord of the seasons, with thy fiery car And leaping coursers, beaming light from far : With thy right hand the source of morning light, And with thy left the father of the night, Agile and vig’rous, venerable Sun, Fiery and bright around the heav’ns you run. Foe to the wicked, but the good man’s guide, O’er all his steps propitious you preside : With various-sounding, golden lyre, ’tis thine To fill the world with harmony divine. Father of ages, guide of prosp’rous deeds, The world’s commander, borne by lucid steeds, Immortal Jove, all-searching, bearing light, Source of existence, pure and fiery bright : Bearer of fruit, almighty lord of years, Agil and warm, whom ev’ry pow’r reveres. Great eye of nature and the starry skies, Doom’d with immortal flames to set and rise : Dispensing justice, lover of the stream, The world’s great despot, and o’er all supreme. Faithful defender, and the eye of right, Of steeds the ruler, and of life the light : With founding whip four fiery steeds you guide, When in the car of day you glorious ride. Propitious on these mystic labours shine, And bless thy suppliants with a life divine. **************** 11

9. To the Moon. The Fumigation from Aromatics. Hear, Goddess queen, diffusing silver light, Bull-horn’d and wand’ring thro’ the gloom of Night. With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide Night’s torch extending, thro’ the heav’ns you ride : Female and Male with borrow’d rays you shine, And now ful-orb’d, now tending to decline. Mother of ages, fruit-producing Moon, Whose amber orb makes Night’s reflected noon : Lover of horses, splendid, queen of Night, All-seeing pow’r bedeck’d with starry light. Lover of vigilance, the foo of strife, In peace rejoicing, and a prudent life : Fair lamp of Night, its ornament and friend, Who giv’st to Nature’s works their destin’d end. Queen of the stars, all-wife Diana hail ! Deck’d with a graceful robe and shining veil ; Come, blessed Goddess, prudent, starry, bright, Come, moony-lamp with chaste and splendid light, Shine on these sacred rites with prosp’rous rays, And pleas’d accept the suppliant’s mystic praise. **************** 12

10. To Nature. The Fumigation from Aromatics. Nature, all parent, ancient, and divine, O much-mechanic mother, art is thine ; Heav’nly, abudant, venerable queen, In ev’ry part of thy dominions seen. Untam’d, all-taming, eversplendid light, All ruling, honor’d, and supremly bright. Immortal, first-born, ever still the same, Nocturnal, starry, shining, glorious dame. Thy feet’s still traces in a circling course, By thee are turn’d, with unremitting force. Pure ornament of all the pow’rs divine, Finite and infinite alike you shine ; To all things common and in all things known, Yet incommunicable and alone. Without a father of thy wond’rous frame, Thyself the father whence thy essence came. All-flourishing, connecting, mingling soul, Leader and ruler of this mighty whole. Life-bearer, all-sustaining, various nam’d, And for commanding grace and beauty fam’d. Justice, supreme in might, whose general sway The waters of the restless deep obey. Aetherial, earthly, for the pious glad, Sweet to the good, but bitter to the bad. All-wife, all-bounteous, provident, divine, A rich increase of nutriment is thine ; Father of all, great nurse, and mother kind, Abundant, blessed, all-spermatic mind : Mature, impetuous, from whose fertile seeds And plastic hand, this changing scene proceeds. All-parent pow’r, to mortal eyes unseen, Eternal, moving, all-sagacious queen. By thee the world, whose parts in rapid flow, Like swift descending streams, no respite know, On an eternal hinge, with steady course In whirl’d, with matchless, unremitting force. 13 Thron’d on a circling car, thy mighty hand Holds and directs, the reins of wide command. Various thy essence, honor’d, and the best, Of judgement too, the general end and test. Interpid, fatal, all-subduing dame, Life-everlasting, Parca, breathing flame. immortal, Providence, the world is thine, And thou art all things, architect divine. O blessed Goddess, hear the suppliant’s pray’r, And make my future life, thy constant care ; Give plenteous seasons, and sufficient wealth, And crown my days with lasting peace and health. **************** 14

11. To Pan. The Fumigation from Various Odours. I call strong Pan, the substance of the whole, Etherial, marine, earthly, general soul, Immortal fire ; for all the world is thine, And all are parts of thee, O pow’r divine. Come, blessed Pan, whom rural haunts delight, Come, leaping, agile, wand’ring, starry light ; The Hours and Seasons, wait thy high command, And round thy throne in graceful order stand. Goat-footed, horned, Bacchanalian Pan, Fanatic pow’r, from whom the world began, Whose various parts by thee inspir’d, combine In endless dance and melody divine. In thee a refuge from our fears we find, Those fears peculiar to the human kind. Thee shepherds, streams of water, goats rejoice, Thou lov’st the chace, and Echo’s secret voice : The sportive nymphs, thy ev’ry step attend, And all thy works fulfill their destin’d end. O all-producing pow’r, much fam’d, divine, The world’s great ruler, rich increase is thine. All-fertile Paean, heav’nly splendor pure, In fruits rejoicing, and in caves obscure. True serpent-horned Jove, whose dreadful rage When rous’d, ’tis hard for mortals to asswage. By thee the earth wide-bosom’d deep and long, Stands on a basis permanent and strong. Th’ unwearied waters of the rolling sea, Profoundly spreading, yield to thy decree. Old Ocean too reveres thy high command, Whose liquid arms begirt the solid land. The spacious air, whose whose nutrimental fire, And vivid blasts, the heat of life inspire ; The lighter frama of fire, whose sparkling eye Shines on the summit of the azure sky, Submit alike to thee, whose general sway All parts of matter, various form’d, obey. 15 All nature’s change thro’ thy protecting care, And all mankind thy lib’ral bounties share : For these where’er dispers’d thro’ thy protecting care, And all mankind thy lib’ral bounties share : For these where’er dispers’d thro’ boundless space, still find thy providence support their race. Comme, Bacchanalian, blessed power draw near, Fanatic Pan, thy humble suppliant hear, Propitious to these holy rites attend, And grant my life may meet a prosp’rous end ; Drive panic Fury too, wherever found, From human kind, to earth’s remotest bound. **************** 16

12. To Hercules. The Fumigation from Frankincense. Hear, pow’rful, Hercules untam’d and strong, To whom vast hands, and mighty works belongs, Almighty Titan, prudent and benight, Of various forms, eternal and divine, Father of Time, the theme of gen’ral praise, Ineffable, ador’d in various ways. Magnanimous, in divination skill’d, And in the athletic labours of the field. ’Tis thine strong archer, all things to devour, Supreme, all-helping, all-producing pow’r ; To thee mankind as their deliv’rer pray, Whose arm can chase the savage tribes away : Unweary’d earth’s best blossom, offspring fair, To whom calm peace, and peaceful works are dear. Self-born, with primogenial fires you shine, And various names and strength of heart are thine. Thy mighty head supports the morning light, And bears untam’d, the silent gloomy night ; From east to west endu’d with strength divine, Twelve glorious labours to absolve is thine ; Supremely skill’d, thou reign’st in heav’n’s abodes, Thyself a God amid’st th’ immortal Gods. With arms unshaken, infinite, divine, Come, blessed pow’r, and to our rites incline ; The mitigations of disease convey, And drive disasterous maladies away. Come, shake the branch with thy almighty arm, Dismiss thy darts and noxious fate disarm. **************** 17

13. To Saturn. The Fumigation from Storax. Etherial father, mighty Titan, hear, Great fire of Gods and men, whom all revere : Endu’d with various council, pure and strong, To whom perfection and decrease belong. Consum’d by thee all forms that hourly die, By thee restor’d, their former place supply ; The world immense in everlasting chains, Strong and ineffable thy pow’r contains ; Father of vast eternity, divine, O mighty Saturn, various speech is thine : Blossom of earth and of the starry skies, Husband of Rhea, and Prometheus wife. Obstetric Nature, venerable root, From which the various forms of being shoot ; No parts peculiar can thy pow’r enclose, Diffus’d thro’ all, from which the world arose. O, best of beings, of a subtle mind, Propitious hear to holy pray’rs inclin’d ; The sacred rites benevolent attend, And grant a blameless life, a blessed end. **************** 18

14. To Rhea. The Fumigation from Aromatics. Daughter of great Protogonus, divine, Illustrious Rhea, to my pray’r incline, Who driv’st thy holy car with speed along, Drawn by fierce lions, terrible and strong. Mother of Jove, whose mighty arm can wield Th’ avenging bolt, and shake the dreadful shield. Drum-beating, frantic, of a splendid mien, Brass-sounding, honor’d, Saturn’s blessed queen. Thou joy’st in mountains and tumultuous fight, And mankind’s horrid howlings, thee delight. War’s parent, mighty, of majestic frame, Deceitful saviour, liberating dame. Mother of Gods and men, from whom the earth And lofty heav’ns derive their glorious birth ; Th’aetherial gales, the deeply spreading sea Goddess aerial form’d, proceed from thee. Come, pleas’d with wand’rings, blessed and divine, With peace attended on our labours shine ; Bring rich abundance, and wherever found Drive dire disease, to earth’s remotest bound. **************** 19

15. To Jupiter. The Fumigation from Storax. O Jove much-honor’d, Jove sypremely great, To thee our holy rites we consecrate, Our pray’rs and expiations, king divine, For all things round thy head exalted shine. The earth is thine, and mountains swelling high, The sea profound, and all within the sky. Saturnian king, descending from above, Magnanimous, commanding, sceptred Jove ; All-parent, principle and end of all, Whose pow’r almighty, shakes this earthly ball ; Ev’n Nature trembles at thy mighty nod, Loud-sounding, arm’d with light’ning, thund’ring God. Source of abundance, purifying king, O various-form’d from whom all natures spring ; Propitious hear my pray’r, give blameless health, With peace divine, and necessary wealth. **************** 20

16. To Juno. The Fumigation from Aromatics. O Royal Juno of majestic mien, Aerial-form’d, divine, Jove’s blessed queen, Thron’d in the bosom of caerulean air, The race of mortals is thy constant care. The cooling gales thy pow’r alone inspires, Which nourish life, which ev’ry life desires. Mother of clouds and winds, from thee alone Producing all things, mortal life is known : All natures share thy temp’rament divine, And universal sway alone is thine. With sounding blasts of wind, the swelling sea And rolling rivers roar, when shook by thee. Come, blessed Goddess, fam’d almighty queen, With aspect kind, rejoicing and serene. **************** 21

17. To Neptune. The Fumigation from Myrrh. Hear, Neptune, ruler of the sea profound, Whose liquid grasp begirts the solid ground ; Who, at the bottom of the stormy main, Dark and deep-bosom’d, hold’st thy wat’ry reign ; Thy awful hand the brazen trident bears, And ocean’s utmost bound, thy will reveres : Thee I invoke, whose steeds the foam divide, From whose dark locks the briny waters glide ; Whose voice loud sounding thro’ the roaring deep, Drives all its billows, in a raging heap ; When fiercely riding thro’ the boiling sea, Thy hoarse command the trembling waves obey. Earth shaking, dark-hair’d God, the liquid plains (The third division) Fate to thee ordains, ’Tis thine, caerulian daemon, to survey Well pleas’d the monsters of the ocean play, Confirm earth’s basis, and with prosp’rous gales Waft ships along, and swell the spacious sails ; Add gentle Peace, and fair-hair’d Health beside, And pour abundance in a blameless tide. **************** 22

18. To Pluto. Pluto, magnanimous, whose realms profound Are fix’d beneath the firm and solid ground, In the Tartarian plains remote from sight, And wrapt forever in the depths of night ; Terrestrial Jove, thy sacred ear incline, And, pleas’d, accept thy mystic’s hymn divine. Earth’s keys to thee, illustrious king belong, Its secret gates unlocking, deep and strong. ’Tis thine, abundant annual fruits to bear, For needy mortals are thy constant care. To thee, great king, Avernus is assign’d, The seat of Gods, and basis of mankind. Thy throne is fix’d in Hade’s dismal plains, Distant, unknown to rest, where darkness reigns ; Where, destitute of breath, pale spectres dwell, In endless, dire, inexorable hell ; And in dread Acheron, whose depths obscure, Earth’s stable roots eternally secure. O mighty daemon, whose decision dread, The future fate determines of the dead, With captive Prosperine, thro’ grassy plains, Drawn in a four-yok’d car with loosen’d reins, Rapt o’er the deep, impell’d by love, you flew ’Till Eleysina’s city rose to view ; There, in a wond’rous cave obscure and deep, The sacred maid secure from search you keep, The cave of Atthis, whose wide gates display An entrance to the kingdoms void of day. Of unapparent works, thou art alone The dispensator, visible and known. O pow’r all-ruling, holy, honor’d light, Thee sacred poets and their hymns delight : Propitious to thy mystic’s works incline, Rejoicing come, for holy rites are thine. **************** 23

19. To Thundring Jove. The Fumigation from Storax. O father Jove, who shak’st with fiery light The world deep-sounding from thy lofty height : From thee, proceeds th’aetherial lightning’s blaze, Flashing around intolerable rays. Thy sacred thunders shake the blest abodes, The shining regions of th’ immortal Gods : Thy pow’r divine, the flaming lightning shrouds, With dark investiture, in fluid clouds. ’Tis thine to brandish thunders strong and dire, To scatter storms, and dreadful darts of fire ; With roaring flames involving all around, And bolts of thunder of tremendous sound. Thy rapid dart can raise the hair upright, And shake the heart of man with wild afright. Sudden, unconqyer’d, holy, thund’ring God, With noise unbounded, flying all abroad ; With all-devouring force, entire and strong, Horrid, untam’d, thou roll’st the flames along. Rapid, aetherial bolt, descending fire, The earth all-parent, trembles at thy ire ; The sea all-shining ; and each beast that hears The sound terrific, with dread horror fears : When Nature’s face is bright with flashing fire, And in the heavens resound thy thunders dire. Thy thunders white, the azure garments tear, And burst the veil of all surrounding air. O Jove, all-blessed, may thy wrath severe, Hurl’d inthe bosom of the deep appear, And on the tops of mountains be reveal’d, For thy strong arm is not from us conceal’d. Propitious to these sacred rites incline, And crown my wishes with a life divine : Add royal health, and gentle peace beside, With equal reason, for my constant guide. **************** 24

20. To Jove as the Author of Lightning. The Fumigation from Frankincense and Manna. I call the mighty, holy, splendid light, Aerial, dreadful-sounding, fiery-bright ; Flaming, aerial-light, with angry voice, Lightning thro’ lucid clouds with horrid noise. Untam’d, to whom resentments dire belong, Pure, holy pow’r, all-parent, great and strong : Come, and benevolent these rites attend, And grant my days a peaceful, blessed end. **************** 25

21. To the Clouds. The Fumigation from Myrrh. Aerial clouds, thro’ heav’n’s resplendent plains Who wander, parents of prolific rains ; Who nourish fruits, whose water’y frames are hurl’d, By winds impetuous, round the mighty world ; All-thundering, lion-roaring, flashing fire, In Air’s wide bosom, bearing thunders dire : Impell’d by ev’ry stormy, sounding gale, With rapid course, along the skies ye fail. With blowing winds your wat’ry frames I call, On mother Earth with fruitful show’rs to fall. **************** 26

22. To the Sea, or Tethys. The Fumigation from Frankincense and Manna. Tethys I call, with eyes caerulean bright, Hid in a veil obscure from human sight ; Great Ocean’s empress, wand’ring thro’ the deep, And pleas’d with gentle gales, the earth to sweep ; Whose blessed waves in swift succession go, And lash the rocky shore with endless flow : Delighting in the Sea serene to play, In ships exulting and the wat’ry way. Mother of Venus, and of clouds obscure, Great nurse of beasts, and source of fountains pure. O venerable Goddess, hear my pray’r, And make benevolent my life thy care ; Send, blessed queen, to ships a prosp’rous breeze, And waft them safely o’er the stormy seas. **************** 27

23. To the Nereus. The Fumigation from Frankincense and Manna. O Thou, who dost the roots of Ocean keep in seats caerulean, daemon of the deep, With fifty nymphs (attending in thy train, Fair virgin artists) glorying thro’ the main : The dark foundation of the rolling sea And Earth’s wide bounds, belong much-fam’d to thee : Great daemon, source of all, whose pow’r can make The Earth’s unmeasur’d, holy basis shake, When blust’ring winds in secret caverns pent, By thee excited, struggle hard for vent : Come, blessed Nereus, listen to my pray’r, And cease to shake the earth with wrath severe ; Send on our sacred rites abundant health, With peace divine and necessary wealth. **************** 28

23. To the Nereids. The Fumigation from Aromatics. Daughters of Nereus, resident in caves Merg’d deep in Ocean, sporting thro’ the waves ; Fanatic fifty nymphs, who thro’ the main Delight to follow in the Triton’s train, Rejoicing close behind their cars to keep ; Whose forms half wild, are nourish’d by the deep, With other nymphs of different degree Leaping and wand’ring thro’ the liquid sea : Bright, wat’ry dolphins, sonorous and gay, Well pleas’d to sport with bachanalian play ; Nymphs beauteous-ey’d, whose sacrifice delights, Send rich abundance on our mystic rites ; For you at first disclos’d the rites divine, Of holy Bacchus and of Prosperine, Of fair Calliope from whom I spring, And of Apollo bright, the Muse’s king. **************** 29

25. To Proteus. The Fumigation from Storax. Proteus I call, whom Fate decrees, to keep The keys which lock the chambers of the deep ; First-born, by whose illustrious pow’r alone All Nature’s principles are clearly shewn : Matter to change with various forms is thine, Matter unform’d, capacious and divine. All-honor’d, prudent, whose sagacious mind Knows all that shall be in succeeding time ; So vast thy wisdom, wond’rous, and sublime : For all things Nature first to thee consign’d, And in thy essence omniform confin’d, Come, blessed father, to our rites attend, And grant our happy lives a prosp’rous end. **************** 30

26. To the Earth. The Fumigation from every kind of seed, except beans and Aromatics. O Goddess, Earth, of Gods and men the source, Endu’d with fertile, all destroying force ; All-parent, bounding, whose prolific pow’rs, Produce a storeof beauteous fruits and flow’rs, All-various maid, th’ eternal world’s strong base Immortal, blessed, crown’d with ev’ry grace ; From whose wide womb, as from an endless root, Fruits, many-form’d, mature and grateful shoot. Deep bosom’d, blessed, pleas’d with grassy plains, Sweet to the smell, and with prolific rains. All flow’ry daemon, centre of the world, Around thy orb, the beauteous stars are hurl’d With rapid whirl, eternal and divine, Whose frames with matchless skill and wisdom shine. Come, blessed Goddess, listen to my pray’r, And make increase of fruits thy constant care ; With fertile Seasons in thy train, draw near, And with propitious mind thy suppliant hear. **************** 31

27. To the Mother of the Gods. The Fumigation from a Variety of Odoriferous Substances . Mother of Gods, great nurse of all, draw near, Divinely honor’d, and regard my pray’r : Thron’d on a car, by lions drawn along, By bull-destroying lions, swift and strong, Thou sway’st the sceptre of the pole divine, And the world’s middle seat, much-fam’d, is thine. Hence earth is thine, and needy mortals share Their constant food, from thy protecting care : From thee at first both Gods and men arose ; From thee, the sea and ev’ry river flows. Vesta, and source of good, thy name we find To mortal men rejoicing to be kind ; For ev’ry good to give, they soul delights ; Come, mighty pow’r, propitious to our rites, All-taming, blessed, Phrygian saviour, come, Saturn’s great queen, rejoicing in the drum. Celestial, ancient, life-supporting maid, Fanatic Goddess, give thy suppliant aid ; With joyful aspect on our incence shine, And, pleas’d, accept the sacrifice divine. **************** 32

28. To Mercury. The Fumigation from Frankincense. Hermes, draw near, and to my pray’r incline, Angel of Jove, and Maia’s son divine ; Studious of contests, ruler of mankind, With heart almighty, and a prudent mind. Celestial messenger, of various skill, Whose pow’rful arts could watchful Argus kill : With winged feet, ’tis thine thro’ air to course, O friend of man, and prophet of discource ; Great life-supporter, to rejoice is thine, In arts gymnastic, and in fraud divine ; With pow’r endu’d all language to explain, Of care the loos’ner, and the source of gain. Whose hand contains of blameless peace the rod, Corucian, blessed, profitable God : Of various speech, whose aid in works we find, And in necessities to mortals kind : Dire weapon of the tongue, which men revere, Be present, Hermes, and thy suppliant hear ; Assist my works, conclude my life with peace, Give graceful speech, and memory’s increase. **************** 33

29. To Prosperine. Daughter of Jove, almighty and divine, Come, blessed queen, and to these rites incline : Only-begotten, Pluto’s honor’d wife, O venerable Goddess, source of life : ’Tis thine in earth’s profundities to dwell, Fast by the wide and dismal gates of hell : Jove’s holy offspring, of the beauteous mien, Fatal, with lovely locks, infernal queen : Source of the furies, whose blest frame proceeds From Jove’s ineffable and secret seeds : Mother of Bacchus, sonorous, divine, And many-form’d, the parent of the vine : The dancing Hours attend thee, essence bright, All-ruling virgin, bearing heav’nly light : Illustrious, horned, of a bounteous mind, Alone desir’d by those of mortal kind. O, vernal queen, whom grassy plains delight, Sweet to the smell, and pleasing to the sight : Whose holy form in budding fruits we view, Earth’s vig’rous offspring of a various hue : Espous’d in Autumn : life and death alone To wretched mortals from thy power is known : For thine the task according to thy will, Life to produce, and all that lives to kill. Hear, blessed Goddess, send a rich increase Of various fruits from earth, with lovely Peace ; Send Health with gentle hand, and crown my life With blest abundance, free from noisy strife ; Last in extreme old age the prey of Death, Dismiss we willing to the realms beneath, To thy fair palace, and the blissful plains Where happy spirits dwell, and Pluto reigns. **************** 34

30. To Bacchus. The Fumigation from Storax. Bacchus I call, loud-sounding and divine, Fanatic God, a two-fold shape is thine : Thy various names and attributes I sing, O, first-born, thrice begotten, Bacchic king : Rural, ineffable, two-form’d, obscure, Two-horn’d, with ivy crown’d, euion, pure : Bull-fac’d, and martial, bearer of the vine, Endu’d with councel prudent and divine : Triennial, whom the leaves of vines adorn, Of Jove and Prosperine, occultly born. Immortal daemon, hear my suppliant voice, Give me in blameless plenty to rejoice ; And listen gracious to my mystic pray’r, surrounded with thy choir of nurses fair. **************** 35

31. To the Curetes. Leaping curetes, who with dancing feet And circling measures, armed footsteps beat : Whose bosom’s mad, fanatic transports fire, Who move in rythm to the sounding lyre : Who traces deaf when lightly leaping tread, Arm bearers, strong defenders, rulers dread : Propitious omens, guards of Prosperine, Preserving rites, mysterious and divine : Come, and benevolent my words attend, (In herds rejoicing), and my life defend. **************** 36

32. To Pallas Athena. Only-begotten, noble race of Jove, Blessed and fierce, who joy’st in caves to rove : O warlike Pallas, whose illustrious kind, ineffable and effable we find : Magnanimous and fam’d, the rocky height, And groves, and shady mountains thee delight : In arms rejoicing, who with Furies dire And wild, the souls of mortals dost inspire. Gymnastic virgin of terrific mind, Dire Gorgons bane, unmarried, blessed, kind : Mother of arts, impetuous ; understood, Rage to the wicked, wisdom to the good : Female and male, the arts of war are thine, Fanatic, much-form’d dragoness, divine : O’er the Phlegrean giants, rous’d to ire, Thy coursers driving, with destruction dire. Sprung from the head of Jove, of splendid mien, Purger of evils, all-victorious queen. Hear me, O Goddess, when to thee I pray, With supplicating voice both night and day, And in my latest hour, give peace and health, And, ever present, be thy vot’ries aid, O, much implor’d, art’s parent, blue eyed-maid. **************** 37

33. To Victory. The Fumigation from manna. O powerful Victory, by men desir’d, With adverse breasts to dreadful fury fir’d, Thee I invoke, whose might alone can quell Contending rage, and molestation fell : ’Tis thine in battle to confer the crown, The victor’s prize, the mark of sweet renown ; for thou rul’st all things, Victory divine ! and glorious strife, and joyful shouts are thine. come, mighty Goddess, and thy suppliant bless, with sparkling eye, elated with success ; may deeds illustrious thy protection claim, And find, led on by thee immortal Fame. **************** 38

34. To Apollo. The Fumigation from manna. Blest Paean, come, propitious to my pray’r, Illustrious pow’r, whom Memphian tribes revere, Slayer of Tityus, and the God of health, Lycorian Phoebus, fruitful source of wealth : Spermatic, golden-lyr’d, the field from thee Receives it’s constant, rich fertility. Titanic, Grunian, Smynthian, thee I sing, Python-destroying, hallow’d, Delphian king : Rural, light-bearer, and the Muse’s head, Noble and lovely, arm’d with arrows dread : Far-darting, Bacchian, two-fold, and divine, Pow’r far diffused, and course oblique is thine. O, Delian king, whose light-producing eye Views all within, and all beneath the sky : Whose locks are gold, whose oracles are sure, Who, omens good reveal’st, and precepts pure : Hear me entreating for the human kind, Hear, and be present with benignant mind ; For thou survey’st this boundless aether all, And ev’ry part of this terrestrial ball Abudant, blessed ; and thy piercing fight, Extends beneath the gloomy, silent night ; Beyond the darkness, starry-eyed, profound, The stable roots, deep fix’d by thee are found. The world’s wide bounds, all-flourishing are thine, Thyself of all the source and end divine : ’Tis thine all Nature’s music to inspire, With various-sounding, harmonising lyre ; Now the last string thou tun’st to sweet accord, Divinely warbling now the highest chord ; Th’ immortal golden lyre, now touch’d by thee, Responsive yields a Dorian melody. All Nature’s tribes to thee their diff’rence owe, And changing seasons from thy music flow : Hence, mix’d by thee in equal parts, advance 39 Summer and Winter in alternate dance ; This claims the highest, that the lowest string, The Dorian measure tunes the lovely spring : Hence by mankind, Pan-Royal, two-horn’d nam’d, Emitting whistling winds thro’ Syrinx fam’d ; Since to thy care, the figur’d seal’s consign’d, Which stamps the world with forms of ev’ry kind. Hear me, blest pow’r, and in these rites rejoice, And save thy mystics with a suppliant voice. **************** 40

35. To Latona. The Fumigation from Myrrh. Dark veil’d Latona, much invoked queen, Twin-bearing Goddess, of a noble mien ; Caeantis great, a mighty mind is thine, Offspring prolific, blest of Jove divine : Phoebus proceeds from thee, the God of light, And Dian fair, whom winged darts delight ; She in Ortygia’s honor’d regions born, In Delos he, which mountains high adorn. Hear me, O Goddess, with propitious mind, And end these holy rites, with aspect kind. **************** 41

36. To Diana. The Fumigation from Manna. Hear me, Jove’s daughter, celebrated queen, Bacchian and Titan, of a noble mien : In darts rejoicing and on all to shine, Torch-bearing Goddess, Dictynna divine ; O’er births presiding, and thyself a maid, To labour-pangs imparting ready aid : Dissolver of the zone and wrinkl’d care, Fierce huntress, glorying in the Sylvan war : Swift in the course, in dreadful arrows skill’d, Wandering by night, rejoicing in the field : Of manly form, erect, of bounteous mind, Illustriousdaemon, nurse of human kind : Immortal, earthly, bane of monsters fell, ’Tis thine, blest maid, on woody hills to dwell : Foe of the stag, whom woods and dogs delight, In endless youth who flourish fair and bright. O, universal queen, august, divine, A various form, Cydonian pow’r, is thine : Dread guardian Goddess, with benignant mind Auspicious, come to mystic rites inclin’d ; Give earth a store of beauteous fruits to bear, Send gentle Peace, and Health with lovely hair, And to the mountains drive Disease and Care. **************** 42

37. To the Titans. The Fumigation from Frankincense. O mighty Titans, who from heav’n and earth Derive your noble and illustrious birth, Our fathers fires, in Tartarus profound Who dwell, deep merg’d beneath the solid ground : Fountains and principles, from whom began Th’ afflicted, miserable, race of man : Who not alone in earth’s retreats abide, But in the ocean and the air reside ; Since ev’ry species from your nature flows, Which all prolific, nothing barren knows : Avert your rage, if from th’ infernal feats One of your tribe should visit our retreats. **************** 43

38. To the Curetes. The Fumigation from Frankincense. Brass-beating Salians, ministers of Mars, Who guard his arms the instruments of wars ; Whose blessed frames, heav’n, earth, and sea compose, And from whose breath all animals arose : Who dwell in Samothracia’s sacred ground, Defending mortals thro’ the sea profound. Deathless Curetes, by your pow’r alone, Initial rites to men at first were shewn : Who shake old Ocean thund’ring to the sky, And stubborn oaks with branches waving high. ’Tis your’s in glittering arms the earth to beat, With lightly-leaping, rapid, sounding feet ; Then every beast the noise terrific flies, And the loud tumult wanders thro’ the skies : The dust your feet excites with matchless force, Flies to the clouds amidst their whirling course ; And ev’ry flower of variegated hue, Grows inthe dancing motion form’d by you. Immortal daemons, to your pow’rs consign’d The task to nourish, and destroy mankind. When rushing furious with loud tumult dire, O’erwhelm’d, they perish in your dreadful ire ; And live replenish’d with the balmy air, The food of life, committed to your care. When shook by you, the seas, with wild uproar, Wide-spreading, and profoundly whirling, roar : The concave heav’ns, with Echo’s voice resound, When leaves with rustling noise bestrew the ground. Curetes, Corybantes, ruling kings, Whose praise the land of Samothracia sings : From Jove descended ; whose immortal breath Sustains the soul, and wafts her back from death : Aerial-form’d, much-fam’d, in heav’n ye shine Two-fold, in heav’n all-lucid and divine : Blowing, serene, from whom abundance springs, Nurses of seasons, fruit-producing kings. 44

39. To Corybas. The Fumigation from Frankincense. The mighty ruler of this earthly ball, For ever flowing, to these rites I call ; Martial and blest, unseen by mortal sight, Preventing fears, and pleas’d with gloomy night : Hence, fancy’s terrors are by thee allay’d, All-various king, who lov’st the desart shade : Each of thy brothers killing, blood is thine, Two-fold Curete, many-formed, divine. By thee transmuted Ceres’ body pure, Became a dragon’s savage and obscure : Avert thy anger, hear me when I pray, And by fix’d fate, drive fancy’s fears away. **************** 45

40. To Ceres. The Fumigation from Storax. O universal mother, Ceres fam’d August, the source of wealth, and various nam’d : Great nurse, all-bounteous, blessed and divine, Who joy’st in peace, to nourish corn is thine : Goddess of feed, of fruits abudant, fair, Harvest and threshing are thy constant care ; Who dwell’st in Eleusina’s seats retir’d, Lovely, delightful queen, by all desir’d. nurse of all mortals, whose benignant mind, First ploughing oxen to the yoke confin’d ; And gave to men, what nature’s wants require, With plenteous means of bliss which all desire. In verdure flourishing, in honor bright, Assessor of great Bacchus, bearing light : Rejoicing in the reapers fickles, kind, Whose nature lucid, earthly, pure, we find. Prolific, venerable, Nurse divine, Thy daughter loving, holy Proserprine : A car with dragons yok’d, ’tis thine to guide, And orgies singing round thy throne to ride : Only-begotten, much-producing queen, All flowers are thine and fruits of lovely green. Bright Goddess, come, with Summer’s rich increase Swelling and pregnant, leading smiling Peace ; Come, with fair Concord and imperial Health, And join with these a needful store of wealth. **************** 46

41. To Ceralian Mother. The Fumigation from Aromatics. Ceralian queen, of celebrated name, From whom both men, and Gods immortal came ; Who widely wand’ring once, oppress’d with grief, In Eleusina’s valley found’st relief, Discovering Proserpine thy daughter pure In dread Avernus, dismal and obscure ; A sacred youth while thro’ the world you stray Bacchus, attending leader of the way ; The holy marriage of terrestrial Jove Relating, while oppress’d with grief you rove ; Come, much invok’d, and to these rites inclin’d, Thy mystic suppliant bless, with fav’ring mind. **************** 47

42. To Mises. The Fumigation from Storax. I call Thesmophorus, spermatic God, Of various names, who bears the leafy rod : Mises, ineffable, pure, sacred queen, Two-fold Iacchus, male and female seen : Illustr’ous whether to rejoice is thine In incense offer’d, in the fane divine ; Or if in Phrygia most thy soul delights, Performing with thy mother sacred rites ; Or if the land of Cyprus is thy care, Well pleas’d to dwell with Cytherea fair ; Or if exulting in the fertile plains With thy dark mother Isis, were she reigns, with nurses pure attended, near the flood Of sacred Egypt, thy divine abode : Wherever resident, blest pow’r attend, And with benignant mind these labours end. **************** 48

43. To the Seasons. The Fumigation from Aromatics. Daughters of Jove and Themis, seasons bright, Justice, and blessed peace, and lawful right, Vernal and grassy, vivid, holy pow’rs, Whose balmy breath exhales in lovely flow’rs : All-colour’d seasons, rich increase your care, Circling, for ever flourishing and fair : Invested with a veil of shining dew, A flow’ry veil delightful to the view : Attending Proserpine, when back from night, The Fates and Graces lead her up to light ; When in a band-harmonious they advance, And joyful round her, form the solemn dance : With Ceres triumphing, and Jove divine ; Propitious come, and on our incense shine ; Give earth a blameless store of fruits to bear, And make a novel mystic’s life your care. **************** 49

44. To Semele. The Fumigation from Storax. Cadmean Goddess, universal queen, Thee, Semele I call, of beauteous mien ; Deep-bosom’d, lovely flowing locks are thine, Mother of Bacchus, joyful and divine, The mighty offspring, whom Jove’s thunder bright, Forc’d immature, and fright’ned into light : Born from the deathless counsels, secret, high, Of Jove Saturnian, regent of the sky ; Whom Proserpine permits to view the light, And visit mortals from the realms of night : Constant attending on the sacred rites, And feast triennial, which thy soul delights ; When thy son’s wond’rous birth mankind relate, And secrets deep, and holy celebrate. Now I invoke thee, great Cadmean queen, To bless these rites with countenance serene. **************** 50

45. To Dionysius Bassareus Triennalis. Come, blessed Dionysius, various-nam’d, Bull-fac’d, begot from thunder, Bacchus fam’d: Bassarian God, of universal might, Whom swords, and blood, and sacred rage delights : In heav’n rejoicing, mad, loud-sounding God, Furious inspirer, bearer of the rod : By Gods rever’d, who dwell’st with human kind, Propitious come, with much-rejoicing mind. **************** 51

46. To Liknitus Bacchus. The Fumigation from Manna. Liknitan Bacchus, bearer of the vine, Thee I invoke to bless rites divine : Florid and gay, of nymphs the blossom bright, And of fair Venus, Goddess of delight, ’Tis thine mad footsteps with mad nymphs to beat, Dancing thro’ groves with lightly leaping feet : From Jove’s high counsels nurst by Proserpine, And born the dread of all the pow’rs divine : Come, blessed pow’r, regard thy suppliant’s voice, Propitious come, and in these rites rejoice. **************** 52

47. To Bacchus Pericionius. The Fumigation from Aromatics. Bacchus Pericionius, hear my pray’r, Who mad’st the house of Cadmus once thy care, With matchless force, his pillars twining round, (When burning thunders shook the solid ground, In flaming, sounding torrents borne along), Propt by thy grasp indissolubly strong. Come mighty Bacchus to these rites inclin’d, And bless thy suppliants with rejoicing mind. **************** 53

48. To Sabasius. The Fumigation from Aromatics. Hear me, illustrious father, daemon fam’d, Great Saturn’s offspring, and Sabasius nam’d ; Inserting Bacchus, bearer of the vine, And sounding God, within thy thigh divine, That when mature, the Dionysian God Might burst the bands of his conceal’d abode, And come to sacred Tmolus, his delight, Where Ippa dwells, all beautiful and bright. Come blessed Phrygian God, the king of all, And aid thy mystics, when on thee they call. **************** 54

49. To Ippa. The Fumigation from Storax. Great nurse of Bacchus, to my pray’r incline, For holy Sabu’s secret rites are thine, The mystic rites of Bacchus’ nightly choirs, Compos’d of sacred, loud-resounding fires : Hear me, terrestrial mother, mighty queen, Whether on Phrygia’s holy mountain seen, Or if to dwell in Tmolus thee delights, With holy aspect come, and bless these rites. **************** 55

50. To Lysius Lenaeus. Hear me, Jove’s son, blest Bacchus, God of wine, Born of two mothers, honor’d and divine ; Lysian, Euion Bacchus, various nam’d, Of Gods the offspring secret, holy, fam’d : Fertile and nourishing, whose liberal care Earth’s fruits increases, flourishing and fair ; Sounding, magnanimous, Lenaean pow’r O various form’d, medic’nal, holy flow’r : Mortals in thee, repose from labour find, Delightful charm, desir’d by all mankind : Fair-hair’d Euion, Bromian, joyful God, Lysian, invested with the leafy rod. To these our rites, benignant pow’r incline, When fav’ring men, or when on Gods you shine ; Be present to thy mystic’s suppliant pray’r, Rejoicing come, and fruits abundant bear. **************** 56

51. To the Nymphs. The Fumigation from Aromatics. Nymphs, who from Ocean’s stream derive your birth, Who dwell in liquid caverns of the earth ; Nurses of Bacchus secret-coursing pow’r, Who fruits sustain, and nourish ev’ry flow’r : Earthly, rejoicing, who in meadows dwell, And caves and dens, whose depths extend to hell : Holy, oblique, who swiftly soar thro’ air, Fountains and dews, and mazy streams your care : Seen and unseen, who joy with wand’rings wide And gentle course, thro’ flow’ry vales to glide ; With Pan exulting on the mountains height, Loud-sounding, mad, whom rocks and woods delight : Nymphs od’rous, rob’d in white whose streams exhale The breeze refreshing, and the balmy gale ; With goats and pastures pleas’d, and beasts of prey, Nurses of fruits, unconcious of decay : In cold rejoicing, and to cattle kind, Sportive thro’ ocean wand’ring unconfin’d : Nysian, fanatic Nymphs, whom oaks delight, Lovers of Spring, Paeonian virgins bright. With Bacchus, and with Ceres, hear my pray’r, And to mankind abudant favour bear ; Propitious listen to your suppliants voice, Come, and benignant in these rites rejoice ; Give plenteous Seasons, and sufficient wealth, And pour, in lasting streams, continued Health. **************** 57

52. To Trietericus. The Fumigation from Aromatics. Bacchus fanatic, much-nam’d, blest, divine, Bull-fac’d, Lenaean, bearer of the vine ; From fire descended, raging, Nysian king, From whom initial ceremonies spring : Liknitan Bacchus, pure and fiery bright, Prudent, crown-bearer, wandering in the night ; Pupil of Proserpine, mysterious pow’r, Triple, ineffable, Jove’s secret flow’r : Ericapaeus, first-begotten nam’d, Of Gods the father, and the offspring fam’d : Bearing a sceptre, leader of the choir, Whose dancing feet, fanatic Furies fire, When the triennial band thou dost inspire. Loud-sounding, Tages, of a fiery light, Born of two mothers, Amphietus bright : Wand’ring on mountains, cloth’d with skins of deer, Apollo golden-ray’d, whom all revere. God of the grape with leaves of ivy crown’d, Bassarian, lovely, virgin-like, renown’d : Come blessed pow’r, regard thy mystics voice, Propitious come, and in these rites rejoice. **************** 58

53. To Amphietus Bacchus. The Fumigation from every Aromatic except Frankincense. Terrestrial Dionysius, hear my pray’r, Awak’ned rise with nymphs of lovely hair : Great Amphietus Bacchus, annual God, Who laid asleep in Proserpine’s abode, Did’st lull to drowsy and oblivious rest, The rites triennial, and the sacred feast ; Which rous’d again by thee, in graceful ring, Thy nurses round thee mystic anthems sing ; When briskly dancing with rejoicing pow’rs, Thou mov’st in concert with the circling hou’rs. Come, blessed, fruitful, horned, and divine, And on these rites with joyful aspect shine ; Accept the general incense and the pray’r, And make prolific holy fruits thy care. **************** 59

54. To Silenus, Satyrus, and the Priestesses of Bacchus. The Fumigation from Manna. Great nurse of Bacchus, to my pray’r incline, Silenus, honor’d by the pow’rs divine ; And by mankind at the triennial feast Illustrious daemon, reverenc’d as the best : Holy, august, the source of lawful rites, Rejoicing pow’r, whom vigilance delights ; With Sylvans dancing ever young and fair, Head of the Bacchic Nymphs, who ivy bear. With all thy Satyrs on our incense shine, Daemons wild form’d, and bless the rites divine ; Come, rouse to sacred joy thy pupil king, And Brumal Nymphs with rites Lenaean bring ; Our orgies shining thro’ the night inspire, And bless triumphant pow’r the sacred choir. **************** 60

55. To Venus. Heav’nly, illustrious, laughter-loving queen, Sea-born, night-loving, of an awful mien ; Crafty, from whom necessity first came, Producing, nightly, all-connecting dame : ’Tis thine the world with harmony to join, For all things spring from thee, O pow’r divine. The triple Fates are rul’d by thy decree, And all productions yield alike to thee : Whate’er the heav’ns, encircling all contain, Earth fruit producing, and the stormy main, Thy sway confesses, and obeys thy nod, Awful attendant of the brumal God : Goddess of marriage, charming to the sight, Mother of Loves, whom banquetings delight ; Source of persuasion, secret, fav’ring queen, Illustrious born, apparent and unseen : Spousal, lupercal, and to men inclin’d, Prolific, most-desir’d, life-giving, kind : Great sceptre-bearer of the Gods, ’tis thine, Mortals in necessary bands to join ; And ev’ry tribe of savage monsters dire In magic chains to bind, thro’ mad desire. Come, Cyprus-born, and to my pray’r incline, whether exalted in the heav’ns you shine, Or pleas’d in Syria’s temple to preside, or o’er th’ Egyptian plains thy car to guide, Fashion’d of gold ; and near iys sacred flood, Fertile and fam’d to fix thy blest abode ; or if rejoicing in the azure shores, Near where the sea with foaming billows roars, The circling choirs of mortals, thy delight, Or beauteous nymphs, with eyes cerulean bright, Pleas’d by the dusty banks renown’d of old, To drive thy rapid, two-yok’d car of gold ; Or if in Cyprus with thy mother fair, Where married females praise thee ev’ry year, And beauteous virgins in the chorus join, 61 Adonis pure to sing and thee divine ; Come, allâttrctive to my pray’r inclin’d, For thee, I call, with holy, reverent mind. **************** 62

56. To Adonis. The Fumigation from Aromatics. Much-nam’d, and best of daemons, hear my pray’r,- The desart-loving, deck’d with tendre hair ; Joy to diffuse, by all desir’d is thine, Much form’d, Eubulus, aliment divine : Female and Male, all charming to the fight, Adonis ever flourishing and bright ; At stated periods doom’d to set and rise, With splendid lamp, the glory of the skies. Two-horn’d and lovely, reverenc’d with tears, Of beauteous form, adorn’d with copious hairs. Rejoicing in the chace, all-graceful pow’r, Sweet plant of Venus, Love’s delightful flow’r : Descended from the secret bed divine, Of lovely-hair’d, infernal Proserpine. ’Tis thine to sink in Tartarus profound, And shine again thro’ heav’ns illustrious round, With beauteous temp’ral orb restor’d to fight ; Come, with earth’s fruits, and in these flames delight. **************** 63

57. To the Terrestrial Hermes. The Fumigation from Storax. Hermes I call, whom Fate decrees to dwell In the dire path which leads to deepest hell : O Bacchic Hermes, progeny divine Of Dionysius, parent of the vine, And of celestial Venus Paphian queen, Dark eye-lash’d Goddess of a lovely mien : Who constant wand’rest thro’ the sacred seats where hell’s dread empress, Proserpine, retreats ; To wretched souls the leader of the way When Fate decrees, to regions void of day : Thine is the wand which causes sleep to fly, Or lulls to slumb’rous rest the weary eye ; For Proserpine thro’ Tart’rus dark and wide Gave thee forever flowing souls to guide. Come, blessed pow’r the sacrifice attend, And grant our mystic works a happy end. **************** 64

58. To Cupid, or Love. The Fumigation from Aromatics. I call great Cupid, source of sweet delight, Holy and pure, and lovely to the sight ; Darting, and wing’d, impetuous fierce desire, With Gods and mortals playing, wand’ring fire : Cautious, and two-fold, keeper of the keys Of heav’n and earth, the air, and spreading seas ; Of all that Cere’ fertile realms contains, By which th’ all-parent Goddess life sustains, Or dismal Tartarus is doom’d to keep, Widely extended, or the sounding deep ; For thee, all Nature’s various realms obey, Who rul’st alone, with universal sway. Come, blessed pow’r, regard these mystic fires, And far avert, unlawful mad desires. **************** 65

59. To the Fates. The Fumigation from Aromatics. Daughters of darkling night, much-nam’d, draw near Infinite Fates, and listen to my pray’r ; Who in the heav’nly lake (where waters white Burst from a fountain hid in depths of night, And thro’a dark and stony cavern glide, A cave profound, invisible) abide ; From whence, wide coursing round the boundless earth, Your pow’r extends to those of mortal birth ; To men with hope elated, trifling, gay, A race presumptuous, born but to decay ; Whose life ’tis your’s in darkness to conceal To sense impervious, in a purple veil, When thro’ the fatal plain they joyful ride In one great car, Opinion for their guide ; ’Till each completes his heav’n-appointed round At Justice, Hope, and Care’s concluding bound, The terms absolv’d, prescrib’d by ancient law Of pow’r immense, and just without a flaw ; For Fate alone with vision unconfin’d, Surveys the conduct of the mortal kind. Fate is Jove’s perfect and eternal eye, For Jove and Fate our ev’ry deed descry. Come, gentle pow’rs, well born, benignant, fame’d, Atropos, Lachesis, and Clotho nam’d : Unchang’d, aerial, wand’ring in the night, Restless, invisible to mortal sight ; Fates all-producing, all-destroying hear, Regard the incense and the holy pray’r ; Propitious listen to these rites inclin’d, And far avert distress with placid mind. **************** 66

60. To the Graces. The Fumigation from Storax. Hear me, illustrious Graces, mighty nam’d, From Jove descended and Eunomia fam’d ; Thalia, and Aglaia fair and bright, And blest Euphrosyne whom joys delight : mothers of mirth, all lovely to the view, pleasure abundant pure belongs to you : Various, forever flourishing and fair, Desir’d by mortals, much invok’d in pray’r : Circling, dark-ey’d, delightful to mankind, Come, and your mystics bless with bounteous mind. **************** 67

61. To Nemesis. Thee, Nemesis I call, almighty queen, By whom the deeds of mortal life are seen : Eternal, much rever’d, of boundless sight, Alone rejoicing in the just and right : Changing the counsels of the human breast For ever various, rolling without rest. To every mortal is thy influence known, And men beneath thy righteous bondage groan ; For ev’ry thought within the mind conceal’d Is to thy sight perspicuously reveal’d. The soul unwilling reason to obey By lawless passion rul’d, thy eyes survey. All to see, hear, and rule, O pow’r divine Whose nature Equity contains, is thine. Come, blessed, holy Goddess, hear my pray’r, And make thy mystic’s life, thy constant care : Give aid benignant in the needful hour, And strength abundant to the reas’ning pow’r ; And far avert the dire, unfriendly race Of counsels impious, arrogant, and base. **************** 68

62. To Justice. The Fumigation from Frankincense. The piercing eye of Justice bright, I sing, Plac’d by the throne of heav’n’s almighty king, Perceiving thence, with vision unconfin’d, The life and conduct of the human kind : To thee, revenge and punishment belong, Chastising ev’ry deed, unjust and wrong ; Whose pow’r alone, dissimilars can join, And from th’ equality of truth combine : For all the ill, persuasion can inspire, When urging bad designs, with counsel dire, ’Tis thine alone to punish ; with the race Of lawless passions, and incentives base ; For thou art ever to the good inclin’d, And hostile to the men of evil mind. Come, all-propitious, and thy suppliants hear, When Fate’s predestin’d, final hour draws near. **************** 69

63. To the Equity. The Fumigation from Frankincense. O blessed Equity, mankind’s delight, Th’ eternal friend of conduct just and right : Abundant, venerable, dispensing constant aid, A stable conscience, and an upright mind ; For men unjust, by thee are undermin’d, Whose souls perverse thy bondage ne’er desire, But more untam’d decline thy scourges dire : Harmonious, friendly power, averse to strife, In peace rejoicing, and a stable life ; Lovely, loquacious, of a gentle mind, Hating excess, to equal deeds inclin’d : Wisdom, and virtue of whate’er degree, Receive their proper bound alone in thee. Hear, Goddess Equity, the deeds destroy Of evil men, which human life annoy ; That all may yield to thee of mortal birth, Whether supported by the fruits of earth, Or in her kindly fertile bosom found, Or in the depths of Marine Jove profound. **************** 70

64. To Law. The holy king of Gods and men I call, The seal which stamps whate’er the earth contains, Nature’s firm basis, and the liquid plains : Stable, and starry, of harmonious frame, Preserving laws eternally the same : Thy all-composing pow’r in heav’n appears, Connects its frame, and props the starry spheres ; And shakes weak Envy with tremendous sound, Toss’d by thy arm in giddy whirls around. ’Tis thine, the life of mortals to defend, And crown existence with a blessed end ; For thy command alone, of all that lives Order and rule to ev’ry dwelling gives : Ever observant of the upright mind, And of just actions the companion kind ; Foe to the lawless, with avenging ire, Their steps involving in destruction dire. Come, blest, abundant pow’r, whom all revere, By all desir’d, with fav[ring mind draw near ; Give me thro’ life, on thee to fix my sight, And ne’er forsake the equal paths of right. **************** 71

65. To Mars. The Fumigation from Frankincense. Magnanimous, unconquer’d, boistrous Mars, In darts rejoicing, and in bloody wars : Fierce and untam’d, whose mighty pow’r can make The strongest walls from their foundations shake : Mortal destroying king, defil’d with gore, Pleas’d with war’s dreadful and tumultuous roar : Thee, human blood, and swords, and spears delight, And the dire ruin of mad savage fight. Stay, furious contests, and avenging strife, Whose works with woe, embitter human life ; To lovely Venus, and to Bacchus yield, To Ceres give the weapons of the field ; Encourage peace, to gentle works inclin’d, And give abundance, with benignant mind. **************** 72

66. To Vulcan. The Fumigation from Frankincense and Manna. Strong, mighty Vulcan, bearing splendid light, Unweary’d fire, with flaming torrents bright : Strong-handed, deathless, and of art divine, Pure element, a portion of the world is thine : All-taming artist, all-diffusive pow’r, ’Tis thine supreme, all substance to devour : Aether, Sun, Moon, and Stars, light pure and clear, For these thy lucid parts to men appear. To thee, all dwellings, cities, tribes belong. Diffus’d thro’ mortal bodies bright and strong. Hear, blessed power, to holy rites incline, And all propitious on the incense shine : Suppress the rage of fires unweary’d frame, And still preserve our nature’s vital flame. **************** 73

67. To Esculapius. The Fumigation from Manna. Great Esculapius, skill’d to heal mankind, All-ruling Paean, and physician kind ; Whose arts medic’nal, can alone assuage Diseases dire, and stop their dreadful rage : Strong lenient God, regard my suppliant pray’r, Bring gentle Health, adorn’d with lovely hair ; Convey the means of mitigating pain, And raging, deadly pestilence restrain. O pow’r all-flourishing, abundant, bright, Apollo’s honor’d offspring, God of light ; Husband of blameless Health, the constant foe Of dread Disease the minister of woe : Come, blessed saviour, and my health defend, And to my life afford a prosp’rous end. **************** 74

68. To Health. The Fumigation from Manna. O much-desir’d, prolific, gen’ral queen, Hear me, life-bearing Health, of beauteous mien, Mother of all ; by thee disease dire, Of bliss destructive, from our life retire ; And ev’ry house is flourishing and fair, If with rejoicing aspect thou art there : Each daedal art, thy vig’rous force inspires, And all the world thy helping hand desires ; Pluto life’s bane alone resists thy will, And ever hates thy all-preserving skill. O fertile queen, from thee forever flows To mortal life from agony repose ; And men without thy all-sustaining ease, Find nothing useful, nothing form’d to please ; Without thy aid, not Plutus’ self can thrive, Nor man to much afflicted age arrive ; For thou alone of countenance serene, Dost govern all things, universal queen. Assist thy mystics with propitious mind, And far avert disease of ev’ry kind. **************** 75

69. To the Furies (Erinys). The Fumigation from Aromatics. Vociferous, Bacchanalian Furies, hear ! Ye, I invoke, dread pow’rs, whom all revere ; Nightly, profound, in secret who retire, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megara dire : Deep in a cavern merg’d, involv’d in night, near where Styx flows impervious to the sight ; Ever attendant on mysterious rites, Furious and fierce, whom Fate’s dread law delights ; Revenge and sorrows dire to you belong, Hid in a savage veil, severe and strong. Terrific virgins, who forever dwell Endu’d with various forms, in deepest hell ; Aerial, and unseen by human kind, And swiftly coursing, rapid as the mind. In vain the Sun with wing’d refulgence bright, In vain the Moon, far darting milder light, Wisdom and Virtue may attempt in vain, And pleasing Art, our transport to obtain ; Unless with these you readily conspire, And far avert your all-destructive ire. The boundless tribes of mortals you descry, And justly rule with Right’s impartial eye. Come, snaky-hair’d, Fates many-form’d, divine, Suppress your rage, and to our rites incline. **************** 76

70. To the Furies (Eumenides). The Fumigation from Aromatics. Hear me, illustrious Furies, mighty nam’d, Terrific pow’rs, for prudent counsel fam’d ; Holy and pure, from Jove terrestrial born And Proserpine, whom lovely locks adorn : Whose piercing sight, with vision unconfin’d, Surveys the deeds of all the impious kind : On Fate attendant, punishing the race (With wrath severe) of deeds unjust and base. Dark-colour’d queens, whose glittering eyes, are bright With dreadful, radiant, life-destroying light : Eternal rulers, terrible and strong, To whom revenge, and tortures dire belong ; Fatal and horrid to the human sight, With snaky tresses wand’ring in the night ; Hither approach, and in these rites rejoice, For ye, I call, with holy, suppliant voice. **************** 77

71. To Melinoe. The Fumigation from Aromatics. I call Melinoe, saffron-veil’d, terrene, Who from infernal Pluto’s sacred queen, Mixt with Saturnian Jupiter, arose, Near where Cocytus’ mournful river flows ; When under Pluto’s semblance, Jove divine Deceiv’d with guileful arts dark Proserpine. Hence, partly black thy limbs and partly white, From Pluto dark, from Jove etherial, bright Thy colour’d members, men by night inspire When seen in specter’d forms with terrors dire ; Now darkly visible, involv’d in night, Perspicuous now they meet the fearful fight. Terrestrial queen expel wherever found The soul’s mad fears to earth’s remotest bound ; With holy aspect on our incense shine, And bless thy mystics, and the rites divine. **************** 78

72. To Fortune. The Fumigation from Frankincense. Approach strong Fortune, with propitious mind And rich abundance, to my pray’r inclin’d : Placid and gentle Trivia, mighty nam’d, Imperial Dian, born of Pluto fam’d ; Mankind’s unconquer’d, endless praise is thine, Sepulch’ral, widely-wand’ring pow’r divine ! In thee, our various mortal life is found, And some from thee in copious wealth abound ; While others mourn thy hand averse to bless, In all the bitterness of deep distress. Be present, Goddess, to thy vot’ry kind, And give abundance with benignant mind. **************** 79

73. To the Daemon, or Genius. The Fumigation from Frankincense. Thee, mighty ruling, Daemon dread, I call, Mild Jove, life-giving, and the source of all : Great Jove, much-wand’ring, terrible and strong, To whom revenge and tortures dire belong. Mankind from thee, in plenteous wealth abound, When in their dwellings joyful thou art found ; Or pass thro’ life afflicted and distress’d, The needful means of bliss by thee supprest. ’Tiss thine alone endu’d with boundless might, To keep the keys of sorrow and delight. O holy, blessed father, hear my pray’r, Disperse the seeds of life-consuming care ; With fav’ring mind the sacred rites attend, And grant my days a glorious, blessed end. *************** 80

74. To Leucothea. The Fumigation from Aromatics. I call Leucothea, of great Cadmus born, And Bacchus’ nurse, whom ivy leaves adorn. Hear, pow’rful Goddess, in the mighty deep Wide and profound, thy station doom’d to keep : In waves rejoicing, guardian of mankind ; For ships from thee alone deliv’rance find Amidst the fury of th’ unstable main, When art no more avail, and strength is vain ; When rushing billows with tempestuous ire O’erwhelm the mariner in ruin dire, Thou hear’st, with pity touch’d, his suppliant pray’r, Resolv’d his life to succour and to spare. Be ever present, Goddess ! in distress, Waft ships along with prosperous success : Thy mystics thro’ the stormy sea defend, And safe conduct them to their destin’d end. **************** 81

75. To Palaemon. The Fumigation from Manna. O nurs’d with Dionysius, doom’d to keep Thy dwelling in the widely-spreading deep : With joyful aspect to my pray’r incline, Propitious come, and bless the rites divine : Thro’ earth and sea thy ministers attend, And from old Ocean’s stormy waves defend : For ships their safety ever owe to thee, Who wand’rest with them thro’ the raging sea. Come, guardian pow’r, whom mortal tribes desire, And far avert the deep’s destructive ire. **************** 82

76. To Muses. The Fumigation from Frankincense. Daughters of Jove, dire-sounding and divine, Renown’d, Pierian, sweetly speaking Nine ; To those whose breasts your sacred furies fire Much-form’d, the objects of supreme desire : Sources of blameless virtue to mankind, Who form to excellence the youthful mind ; Who nurse the soul, and give her to descry The paths of right with Reason’s steady eye. Commanding queens who lead to sacred light The intellect refin’d from Error’s night ; And to mankind each holy rite disclose, For mystic knowledge from your nature flows. Clio, and Erato, who charms the sight, With thee Euterpe minist’ring delight : Thalia flourishing, Polymnia fam’d, Melpomene from skill in music nam’d : Terpsichore, Urania heav’nly bright, With thee who gav’st me to behold the light. Come, venerable, various, pow’rs divine, With fav’ring aspect on your mystics shine ; Bring glorious, ardent, lovely, fam’d desire, And warm my bosom with your sacred fire. **************** 83

77. To Mnemosyne, or the Goddess of Memory. The Fumigation from Frankincense. The consort I invoke of Jove divine, Source of the holy, sweetly speaking Nine ; Free from th’ oblivion of the fallen mind, By whom the soul with intellect is join’d : Reason’s increase, and thought to thee belong, All-powerful, pleasant, vigilant, and strong : ’Tis thine, to waken from lethargic rest All thoughts deposited within the breast ; And nought neglecting, vigorous to excite The mental eye from dark oblivion’s night. Come, blessed power, thy mystic’s mem’ry wake To holy rites, and Lethe’s fetters break. **************** 84

78. To Aurora. The Fumigation from Manna. Hear me, O Goddess ! whose emerging ray Leads on the broadrefulgence of the day ; Blushing Aurora, whose celestial light Beams on the world with red’ning splendours bright : Angel of Titan, whom with constant round, Thy orient beams recall from night profound : Labour of ev’ry kind to lead is thine, Of mortal life the minister divine. mankind in thee eternally delight, And none presumes to shun thy beauteous sight. Soon as thy splendours break the bands of rest, And eyes unclose with pleasing sleep oppress’d ; Men, reptiles, birds, and beasts, with gen’ral voice, and all the nations of the deep, rejoice ; For all the culture of our life is thine. Come, blessed pow’r ! and to these rites incline : Thy holy light increase, and unconfin’d Diffuse its radiance on thy mystic’s mind. **************** 85

79. To Themis. The Fumigation from Frankincense. Illustrious Themis, of celestial birth, Thee I invoke, young blossom of the earth : Beauteous-eyed virgin ; first from thee alone, Prophetic oracles to men were known, Giv’n from the deep recesses of the fane In sacred Pytho, where renown’d you reign ; From thee, Apollo’s oracles arose, And from thy pow’r his inspiration flows. Honour’d by all, of form divinely bright, Majestic virgin, wand’ring in the night : Mankind from thee first learnt initial rites, And Bacchus’ nighty choirs thy soul delights ; For holy honours to disclose is thine, With all the culture of the pow’rs divine. Be present, Goddess, to my pray’r inclin’d, And bless the mystic rites with fav’ring mind. **************** 86

80. To the North Wind. The Fumigation from Frankincense. Boreas, whose wint’ry blasts, terrific, tear The bosom of the deep surrounding air ; Cold icy pow’r, approach, and fav’ring blow, And Thrace a while desert expos’d to snow : The misty station of the air dissolve, With pregnant clouds, whose frames in show’rs resolve : Serenely temper all within the sky, And wipe from moisture, Aether’s beauteous eye. **************** 87

81. To the West Wind. The Fumigation from Frankincense. Sea-born, aerial, blowing from the west, Sweet gales, who give to weary’d labour rest : Vernal and grassy, and of gentle sound, To ships delightful, thro’ the sea profound ; For these, impell’d by you with gentle force, Pursue with prosp’rous Fate their destin’d course. With blameless gales regard my suppliant pray’r, Zephyrs unseen, light-wing’d, and form’d from air. **************** 88

82. To the South Wind. The Fumigation from Frankincense. Wide coursing gales, whose lightly leaping feet With rapid wings the air’s wet bosom beat, Approach benevolent, swift-whirling pow’rs, With humid clouds the principles of show’rs : For show’ry clouds are portion’d to your care, To send on earth from all surrounding air. Hear, blessed pow’rs, these holy rites attend, And fruitful rains on earth all-parent send. **************** 89

83. To Ocean. The Fumigation from Aromatics. Ocean I call, whose nature ever flows, From whom at first both Gods and men arose ; Sire incorruptible, whose waves surround, And earth’s concluding mighty circle bound : Hence every river, hence the spreading sea, And earth’s pure bubbling fountains spring from thee : Hear, mighty fire, for boundless bliss is thine, Whose waters purify the pow’rs divine : Earth’s friendly limit, fountain of the pole, Whose waves wide spreading, and circumfluent roll. Approach benevolent, with placid mind, And be for ever to thy mystics kind. **************** 90

84. To Vesta. The Fumigation from Aromatics. Daughter of Saturn, venerable dame, The seat containing of unweary’d flame ; In sacred rites these ministers are thine, Mystics much-blessed, holy, and divine. In thee, the Gods have fix’d their dwelling place, Strong, stable basis of the mortal race : Eternal, much-form’d, ever florid queen, Laughing and blessed, and of lovely mien ; Accept these rites, accord each just desire, And gentle health, and needful good inspire. **************** 91

85. To Sleep. The Fumigation from a Poppy. Sleep, king of Gods, and men of mortal birth, Sov’reign of all sustain’d by mother Earth ; for thy dominion is supreme alone, Over all extended, and by all things known. ’Tis thine all bodies with benignant mind In other bands than those of brass to bind : Tamer of cares, to weary toil repose, From whom sweet solace in affliction flows. Thy pleasing, gentle chains preserve the soul, And e’er the dreadful cares of death controul ; For death and Lethe with oblivious stream, Mankind thy genuine brothers justly deem. With fav’ring aspect to my pray’r incline, And save thy mystics in their works divine. **************** 92

86. To the Divinity of Dreams. The Fumigation from Aromatics. Thee I invoke, blest pow’r of dreams divine, Angel of future fates, swift wings are thine : Great source of oracles to human kind, When stealing soft, and whisp’ring to the mind, Thro’ sleep’s sweet silence and the gloom of night, Thy pow’r awakes th’ intellectual sight ; To silent souls the will of hean’n relates, And silently reveals their future fates. For ever friendly to the upright mind Sacred and pure, to holy rites inclin’d ; For these with pleasing hope thy dreams inspire, Bliss to anticipate, which all desire. Thy visions manifest of fate disclose, What methods best may mitigate our woes ; Reveal what rites the Gods immortal please, And what the means their anger to appease : For ever tranquil is the good man’s end, Whose life, thy dreams admonish and defend. But from the wicked turn’d averse to bless, Thy form unseen, the angel of distress ; No means to check approaching ill they find, Pensive with fears, and to the future blind. Come, blessed pow’r, the signatures reveal Which heav’n’s decrees mysteriously conceal, Signs only present to the worthy mind, Nor omens ill disclose of monst’rous kind. **************** 93

87. To the Death. The Fumigation from manna. Hear me, O Death, whose empire unconfin’d, Extends to mortal tribes of ev’ry kind. On thee, the portion of our time depends, Whose absence lengthens life, whose presence ends. Thy sleep perpetual bursts the vivid folds, By which the soul, attracting body holds : Common to all of ev’ry sex and age, For nought escapes thy all-destructive rage ; Not youth itself thy clemency can gain, Vig’rous and strong, by thee untimely slain. In thee, the end of nature’s works is known, In thee, all judgment is absolv’d alone : No suppliant arts thy dreadful rage controul, No vows revoke the purpose of thy soul ; O blessed pow’r regard my ardent pray’r, And human life to age abundant spare.