"Ὠκεανοῦ καλέω νύμφην, γλαυκώπιδα Τηθύν,
κυανόπεπλον ἄνασσαν, εὔτροχα κυμαίνουσαν,
αὔραις ἡδυπνόοισι πατασσομένην περὶ γαῖαν,
θραύουσ’ αἰγιαλοῖσι πέτρηισί τε κύματα μακρά,
εὐδίνοις ἁπαλοῖσι γαληνιόωσα δρόμοισι,
ναυσὶν ἀγαλλομένη, θηροτρόφε, ὑγροκέλευθε,
μήτηρ μὲν Κύπριδος, μήτηρ νεφέων ἐρεβεννῶν
καὶ πάσης πηγῆς νυμφῶν νασμοῖσι βρυούσης·
κλῦθί μου, ὦ πολύσεμνε, καὶ εὐμενέουσ’ ἐπαρήγοις,
εὐθυδρόμοις οὖρον ναυσὶν πέμπουσα, μάκαιρα.
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I call on Ocean’s bride, gleaming-eyed Tethys,
o queen veiled in deepest blue, rising in fine-wheeled waves,
dashed round the earth by sweet-breathing breezes,
breaking high waves on shore and stone,
growing calm with smooth and tender tides,
glorying in ships, o nourisher of beasts, o flood-pathed,
mother of Kypris, mother of abyss-dark clouds,
and of every font teeming with the streams of nymphs;
hear me, o richly-revered, and graciously come to my aid,
sending a fair wind for straight-sailing ships, o blessed one."