By grace of the Gods there be countless paths far-spreading before my feet; + 

But, Melissus, thou at the Isthmian Games hast shown me a highway meet + 

Whereon to follow in song the track of the prowess of thy line + 

Wherein the sons of Kleonymus ever have prospered by help divine, + 

And so pass on to the term of mortal life; but ever shifting + 

Are the winds of fate that swoop upon man, and drive him chartless-drifting. + 