The galleys now by Pithecusa pass; + 

The name is from the natives of the place. + 

The father of the gods detesting lies, + 

Oft with abhorrence heard their perjuries. + 

The abandon’d race, transform’d to beasts, began + 

To mimic the impertinence of man: + 

Flatnosed and furrow’d, with grimace they grin, + 

And look to what they were too near akin; + 

Merry in make, and busy to no end, + 

This moment they divert, the next offend: + 

So much this species of their past retains, + 

Though lost the language, yet the noise remains. + 