Jove with divinest skill his heart inspires,

And now the fourth on this dread seat enthroned

Sits Loxias,[f6] prophet of his father Jove.[n4]

These be the gods, whom chiefly I invoke:

But thee, likewise, who ’fore this temple dwellest,[n5]

Pallas, I pray, and you, ye Nymphs that love

The hollow Corycian rock,[n6] the frequent haunt

Of pleasant birds, the home of awful gods.

Thee, Bromius, too, I worship,[n7] not unweeting

How, led by thee, the furious Thyads rushed