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The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus - Platonic Philosophy

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28 THE MYSTICAL HYMNS<br />

Queen <strong>of</strong> the stars 27, all-wise Diana, hail !<br />

Deck'd with a graceful robe and ample veil.<br />

Come, blessed Goddess, prudent, starry, bright,<br />

Come, moony-lamp, with chaste and splendid light,<br />

Shine on these sacred rites with prosp'rous rays,<br />

And pleas'd accept thy suppliants' mystic praise.<br />

TOUS $U~~KOUS XOYOUS cis EucpyLav, tcai TO ~UTOTEXES (lege TO<br />

areXes) 77s VATS ~~X~iovua* 810 KUL Ao~iuv avrqv oire %EOXOYOL,<br />

Kac o EV @EUIT?]T~.J ~ w ~ p aKUXOUQLV, r ~ s ws T?/S @JcTLK~)s T~OO~OU,<br />

Kac ysvvqaews E$O~OU. <strong>The</strong> epithet in the Orphic hymn is<br />

zshaaglopos, i. e. bringing to aperfeot end.<br />

27 In the original aorpapX?/. This appellation was first<br />

given to the Moon by the Phcenicians, as we are informed<br />

by Herodian. This Goddess likewise was called by the<br />

Africans Urania. Vide Selden. de Diis Syriis, p. 248.

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