§1Οὐδενὸς εὐνάτειρα Μακροπτολέμοιο δὲ μάτηρ §2μαίας ἀντιπέτροιο θοὸν τέκεν ἰθυντῆρα, §3οὐχὶ Κεράσταν ὅν ποτε θρέψατο ταυροπάτωρ, §4ἀλλ᾽ ου πειλιπὲς αἶθε πάρος φρένα τέρμα σάκους, §5οὔνομ᾽ Ὅλον, δίζων, ὃς τᾶς μέροπος πόθον §6κούρας γηρυγόνας ἔχε τᾶς ἀνεμώδεος, §7ὃς Μοίσᾳ λιγὺ πᾶξεν ἰοστεφάνῳ §8ἕλκος, ἄγαλμα πόθοιο πυρισμαράγου, §9ὃς σβέσεν ἀνορέαν ἰσαυδέα §10παπποφόνου Τυρίας τ᾽ ἐξήλασεν.
The bedfellow of Nobody and the mother of Great-War bore the swift leader of the nurse of the one who was substituted for a stone, not the Horned One whom once the bull-father reared, but him whose heart once burned, deprived of a female, for the border of a shield, whose name is All, double-natured, who the desire of the mortal wind-swift, voiced maiden held, who infixed shrilly for the violet-crowned Muse a wound, a monument of fire-resounding desire, who quenched the equal-voiced wrath, and drove him out of the Tyrian land of the grandfather-slayer.
To whom this lovely, of the blind-bearers, pain did Simichidas' Paris dedicate.
§13ψυχὰν ᾇ, βροτοβάμων, §14στήτας οἶστρε Σαέττας, §15κλωποπάτωρ, ἀπάτωρ, §16λαρνακόγυιε, χαρείς §17ἁδὺ μελίσδοις §18ἔλλοπι κούρᾳ, §19Καλλιόπᾳ §20νηλεύστῳ.
With his own soul, O mortal-treading one, O gadfly of the standing-up Saettae, thief-fathered, fatherless, chest-limbed, rejoicing, may you sweetly play for the speechless maiden, Calliope, the unstoned.