Bid Syracuse and Ortygia’s praise be chanted, + 

By Hiero with righteous sceptre swayed + 

Who honours Her whose feet on furrows planted + 

Make red the com, the great Feast of the Maid + 

Of the White Steeds, and Zeus throned on the height + 

Of Etna honours. Lyre and song sweet-pealing + 

Know Hiero well. His fortune may the flight + 

Of time not wreck! With welcome love-revealing, + 

King, greet this song that chants Agesias’ might, + 