Opening Hymns — Plethon in Plato Scroll…
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Plethon · Claude Opus 4.8
Plethon's hymns to the gods, drawn from the liturgical portions of his Book of Laws — the perennial, monthly, sacred, and daily praises of his restored Hellenic worship. They are addressed to Zeus, the self-fathered first cause and the Good itself, to Poseidon and Hera, to Apollo and the Olympians, to the Titans and daemons, and they close with a sequence of daily beatitudes on the measured and virtuous life. Twenty-seven hymns in all. Public domain. Father Jove, Father of Thyself, First Creator, King who generates everything, supreme, who dominates all, Almighty, who art the Being, the Unity, the Good Itself; Thou who, across the infinity of times, generated'st all things, The greatest from Thyself and the other from these, As excellent as possible. Be propitious, save us, leading us with all other things By means of Thy unerring children always glorious, to whom Thou entrusted'st What …
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