Στροφή + 

O fair wind blowing from the sea! + 

Who through the dark and mist dost guide + 

The ships that on the billows ride, + 

Unto what land, ah, misery! + 

Shall I be borne, across what stormy wave, + 

Or to whose house a purchased slave? + 

O sea-wind blowing fair and fast + 

Is it unto the Dorian strand, + 

Or to those far and fable shores, + 

Where great Apidanus outpours + 

His streams upon the fertile land, + 

Or shall I tread the Phthian sand, + 

Borne by the swift breath of the blast? + 