And now I call on him, the Zeus-sprung steer,[[213]]

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Our true protector, far beyond the sea,

Child of the heifer-foundress of our line,

Who cropped the flowery mead,

Born of the breath, and named from touch of Zeus.

[*]And lo! the destined time

[*]Wrought fully with the name,

And she brought forth the “Touch-born,” Epaphos.

Antistrophe I