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