Hymn to Ocean (www.GreekAlphabeta.com) #HymnsofOrpheus

This is a first-pass attempt to translate the Orphic Hymn to Ocean with the aid of the Liddell-Scott Greek-English Lexicon.


83. Ὠκεανοῦ, - Ocean, God of the Ocean
θυμίαμα - incense
ἀρώματα. - aromatic, spices

Ὠκεανὸν - Ocean
καλέω, - call, release
πατέρ’ - pater, father
ἄφθιτον,- arising above (ἄ) + consumption, decay (φθιτον) 
αἰὲν - eternal
ἐόντα, - essence (of) (ἐ) + the things which actually exist, the present (opposite of the past and future); reality (όντα) 
ἀθανάτων - arising above (ἀ) + death, mortality (θανάτων)
τε - too then
θεῶν - divine, deity
γένεσιν - genitive, creator, parent, father; giving life to, producing
θνητῶν - mortality, death
τ’ - too then
ἀνθρώπων, - of humans, of anthropos

ὃς - entity
περικυμαίνει - having to do with, surrounding (περι) + swells, waves; pregnancy (κυμαίνει) (double-meaning)
γαίης - of earth, of Gaia, Goddess of generative earth 
περιτέρμονα - having to do with, surrounding (περι) + ends, bounds, term (τέρμονα) 
κύκλον· - cycling, encircling

ἐξ - essence detached-from, bring out, release; the number six (presumably because requires a second hand to display six fingers)
οὗπερ - entity pure (οὗ) + all around (περ)
πάντες - all
ποταμοὶ - rivers, potomai
καὶ - and
πᾶσα - all
θάλασσα - seas, Thalassa, Goddess of the sea

καὶ - and
χθόνιοι - foundation divine
γαίης - of generative Earth, Gaia
πηγόρρυτοι - "flow from a spring"? = fix; determine a nativity, irrevocably fixed; frozen (πηγό) + flowing, fluid, liquid (ρρυτοι) = "always flowing"
ἰκμάδες - moisture, moist secretions, wet
ἁγναί. - pure

κλῦθι, - call, unlock, release
μάκαρ, - happy, blessed
πολύολβε, - many, multi (πολύ) + blessings, whole-life (ολβε) θεῶν - of the divine, deities
ἅγνισμα - pure
μέγιστον,- majestic 

τέρμα - terms, bounds, ends
φίλον - of loving 
γαίης, -Gaia, generative Earth 
ἀρχὴ - arising from the foundation
πόλου, - many, multi 
ὑγροκέλευθε, - watery, wet (ὑγρο) + roads, paths (κέλευθε)

ἔλθοις - come, go
εὐμενέων - kindly, graciously
μύσταις - mystai, initiates into the mysteries, mysteries
κεχαρισμένος - core essence + charitable, welcome, gracious, agreeable, favorable + power, might
αἰεί. - eternal