Pyth. First, with this prayer, of all the Gods I honour

The primal seeress Earth, and Themis next,[[466]]

Who in due order filled her mother's place,

(So runs the tale,) and in the third lot named,

With her good-will and doing wrong to none,

Another of the Titans' offspring sat,

Earth's daughter Phœbe, and as birthday gift

She gives it up to Phœbos,[[467]] and he takes

His name from Phœbe. And he, leaving then

The pool[[468]] and rocks of Delos, having steered