The singers of old, Thrasybulus, who mounted the car of the Queens of Song, + 

The golden-tired, giving voice to the ringing lyre and the tuneful tongue, + 

Shot lightly the arrows of honey-sweet strains in the fair one’s praise, + 

Whosoever by bright summer-bloom of lovely form and face + 

Stirred hearts to dream upon splendour-throned Aphrodite’s grace. + 