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when the golden heifer, the rose-fingered daughter of Inachus, left Argos, land of horses, by the counsels of widely powerful, greatest Zeus?
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When Argus,
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who could see all around with untiring eyes, was bidden by golden-robed Hera, the greatest queen, to guard the lovely-horned heifer, unresting and unsleeping;
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and the son of Maia could not evade him, neither by shining day nor by sacred night. Did it then happen that
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the swift-footed messenger [of Zeus] then killed [the son of Earth] with mighty offspring Argus? Or was it that unutterable cares?
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Or did the Pierian Muses bring about rest from troubles ?
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For me, the most secure [path?] is the one which when she arrived at the flowery banks
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of the Nile, [gadfly-driven] Io, bearing the child Epaphus. There [she bore him?] ruler over linen-robed teeming with majestic
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and greatest mortal from this race Cadmus, son of Agenor, begat Semele in seven-gated Thebes, and she bore the rouser of Bacchants,
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Dionysus, the and [lord of] garland-[bearing] choruses.
Ode 20 (Dithyramb 6) Idas: for the Lacedaemonians
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Once in [spacious] Sparta the golden-haired Lacedaemonian such a song when
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bold-hearted [Idas] led Marpessa, the maiden with lovely [cheeks], fleeing of death Poseidon, the lord of the sea
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and to him horses [swift as the wind]
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to well-built Pleuron, the son of [Ares] with golden shield The rest of the ode is lost.
