To holy plain all forms of life sustaining,

Fields that are fed from snows,[[244]]

Which Typhon's monstrous strength has traversed,[[245]]

And unto Neilos' streams,

By sickly taint untouched,[[246]]

Still maddened with her toil of ignominy,

By torturing stings driven on, great Hera's frenzied slave.

Antistrophe III

And those who then the lands inhabited,

Quivered with pallid fear,