“Then in the fourth generation the sons of his blood had ta’en + 

With the Danaans’ help possession of Libya’s boundless plain; + 

For then from great Lacedaemon, from Argos’ wide-mouthed bay + 

And Mycenae, had warriors thither fared in a mighty array. + 

But, as things have befallen, Euphemus shall wed with an alien dame, + 

And shall win him from those espousals a chosen seed of his name + 

The which, of the high Gods honoured, shall come unto Thera’s strand + 

And beget a man to be ruler of that cloud-shadowed land: + 

Unto him in the hall of Phoebus, the temple rich in gold, + 

Shall the word of the revelation of an oracle be told, + 