And they couched with the women: in alien furrows there did they sow + 

By night or by day the fateful seed of the bright sun-glow + 

Of your line’s fair fortune. Planted there was Euphemus’ race, + 

Destined to fadeless increase through ever-during days. + 

In the homesteads of Lacedaemon the wanderers tarried awhile; + 

In Thera thereafter abode they, once named Kalliste’s Isle. + 

Thence was it the Son of Leto led your sires oversea, + 

And gave them the plains of Libya, to bring prosperity + 

To the land by god-given honours, and to rule o’er the hallowed town + 

Of golden-throned Kyrene, the Nymph of old renown, + 