O Eileithyia enthroned for ever + 

By the Destinies deeply-brooding, hearken, + 

Thou Daughter of Hera the mighty, O giver + 

Of birth unto babes! Unholpen of thee + 

Never a child of man may see + 

The day-dawn break or the even darken; + 

Nor ever thy sister may we behold, + 

Young Hebe with limbs of glorious mould. + 

We receive not our breath for a like life all, + 

But to each doth his several destiny fall. + 

We are fettered by Fate. By thy grace alone + 

Chanted to-day are the glorious feats + 

Wrought in the contest of pentathletes + 

By Sogenes, son of Thearion. + 