MIGHTY- city of Syracuse ! holy ground of Ares,
that is ever plunged in war ! thou nursing-place
divine of heroes and steeds that rejoice in steel I Lo, I come from splendid Thebes, and I bring
a song that telleth of the race of the four- horse chariot that shaketh the earth,—that race
in which Hieron was victorious with his glorious
team,^ and thus crowned Ortygia with wreaths that
shine afar,—Ortygia, the haunt of the river-goddess
Artemis, not without whose aid he guided with his gentle hands those steeds -with broidered reins. For
that maiden-goddess of the chase, and Hermes, lord of the wrestling-ring, with their twain hands present
him with those gleaming trappings, when he yokes
the strength of his steeds to his polished car, and to the wheels that obey the bit, while he calleth on
the god who wieldeth the trident and ruleth far and wide.
https://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus-data/L056.pdf