Ἀρτέμιδος

Θυμίαμα σμύρναν

Κλῦθί μευ, ὦ βασίλεια, Διὸς πολυώνυμε κούρη, Clŷthí meu, ô basíleia, Diòs polyṓnyme coúrē, Τιτηνίς, βρομίη, μεγαλώνυμε, τοξότι, σεμνή, Titēnís, bromíē, megalṓnyme, toxóti, semnḗ, πασιφαής, δᾳδοῦχε, Θεά Δίκτυννα, λοχείη, pasiphaḗs, daidoûche, Theá Díctynna, locheíē, ὠδίνων ἐπαρωγὲ καὶ ὠδίνων ἀμύητε, ōdínōn eparōgè cæ̀ ōdínōn amýēte, λυσίζωνε, φίλοιστρε, κυνηγέτι, λυσιμέριμνε, lysízōne, phílœstre, cynēgéti, lysimérimne, εὔδρομος, ἰοχέαιρα, φιλαγρότι, νυκτερόφοιτε, eúdromos, iochéæra, philagróti, nycteróphœte, κλῃσίη, εὐάντητε, λυτηριάς, ἀρσενόμορφε, clēisíē, euántēte, lytēriás, arsenómorphe, ὀρθίη, ὠκυλόχεια, βροτῶν κουροτρόφε Δαῖμον, orthíē, ōcylócheia, brotôn courotróphe Dæ̂mon, ἀμβροσίη, χθονίη, θηροκτόνος, ὀλβιόμοιρε, ambrosíē, chthoníē, thēroctónos, olbiómœre, ἣ κατέχεις ὀρέων δρυμούς, ἐλαφηβόλε, σεμνή, hḕ catécheis oréōn drymoús, elaphēbóle, semnḗ, πότνια, παμβασίλεια, καλὸν θάλος αἰὲν ἐοῦσα, pótnia, pambasíleia, calòn thálos æèn eoûsa, δρυμονίη, σκυλακῖτι, Κυδωνιάς, αἰολόμορφε· drymoníē, scylacîti, Cydōniás, æolómorphe; ἐλθέ, Θεὰ σώτειρα, φίλη, μύστῃσιν ἅπασιν elthé, Theà sṓteira, phílē, mýstēisin hápasin εὐάντητος, ἄγουσα καλοὺς καρποὺς ἀπὸ γαίης euántētos, ágousa caloùs carpoùs apò gǽēs εἰρήνην τ’ ἐρατὴν καλλιπλόκαμόν θ’ ὑγίειαν· eirḗnēn t’ eratḕn calliplócamón th’ hygíeian; πέμποις δ’ εἰς ὀρέων κεφαλὰς νούσους τε καὶ ἄλγη. pémpœs d’ eis oréōn cephalàs noúsous te cæ̀ álgē.

To Artemis

The fumigation from myrrh

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 presiding¹, 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,
illustrious Dæmon, 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.