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The Orphic Hymns, Hymn 50: The god who sets free

Dionysus as Lysios, "the one who sets free", and Lenaios, the god of the wine-press, in a hymn whose heading names no incense.

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ΛΥΣΙΟΥLysíouOf LysiosΛΗΝΑΙΟΥLēnaíouLenaios.ΚλῦθιKlŷthiHear,μάκαρmákarblessed one,ΔιὸςDiòsof Zeusυἷʼhyî’son,ἐπιλήνιεepilḗnieof the wine-pressΒάκχεBákcheBacchus,διμῆτορdimêtortwice-born,

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