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The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

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THE MYSTICAL HYMNS<br />

IV.<br />

TO APOLLO.<br />

THE FUMIGATION FROM MANNA.<br />

BLEST Psean, come, propitious to my pray'r,<br />

Illustrious pow'r, whom Memphian tribes revere,<br />

Slayer <strong>of</strong> Tityus, and the God <strong>of</strong> health,<br />

Lycorian Phoebus, fruitful source <strong>of</strong> wealth :<br />

Spermatic, golden-lyr'd, the field from thee<br />

Receives its constant rich fertility.<br />

Titanic, Grunian G2, Smynthian, thee I sing,<br />

Python-destroying 6% hallow'd, Delphian king :<br />

62 Grynsus, according to Strabo, lib. 13, is a town <strong>of</strong><br />

Myrinaeus, and is likewise a temple <strong>of</strong> Apollo, and a most<br />

ancient oracle and temple, sumptuously built <strong>of</strong> white<br />

stone.<br />

c3 "Typhon, Echidna, and Python being the progeny <strong>of</strong><br />

Tartarus and Earth, which is conjoined with Heaven, (says<br />

Olympiodorus in MS. Comment. in Phzdon.) form, as it<br />

were, a certain Chaldaic triad, which is the inspective<br />

guardian <strong>of</strong> the whole <strong>of</strong> a disordered fabrication [i. e. <strong>of</strong><br />

the fabrication <strong>of</strong> the last <strong>of</strong> things]." OTL Taprapou Kai<br />

~ T T S ~ ~U{VYOU(T?)S S<br />

TY Ovpavq, o TU@WV, EXLBYU, o<br />

IlvOwv, o~ov XUXGULK~<br />

rrs rptas ~$opos 77s araKTous raqs<br />

G~,umupyias. And in another part <strong>of</strong> the same Commentary<br />

he says, "that Typhon is the cause <strong>of</strong> the all-various sub-

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