So to the Aiakids, hero-spearmen from Kronos and Zeus descended + 

And from the golden Nereid Sea-maids, honour hath Pytheas brought, + 

And to the mother-city which alway the stranger-guest hath befriended. + 

That peopled with heroes and famed for ships she might be, this was besought + 

By Endaïs’ scions the far-renowned and by princely Phokus’ might + 

Who of Psamatheia the Goddess was born on the sea-beach foam-flecked white. + 

By the altar they stood of Zeus the Hellenian Sire, and to heaven’s height + 