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 From Gela, whence the city took its name, From Camarina's reedy marsh they came; They came, who sport on Arethusa's brink; And the strange waters of Alpheus drink. Above them all is Cyane supreme: So brightly gay the mooned targets gleam, As leads in triumph her fair squadrons on Hippolyte, that noble Amazon, Home from the vanquished North, the glorious battle won: What time the Getæ rued their fierce attacks, And frozen Tanais felt Thermodon's axe. Such forms the Bacchic Nymphs in Hermus lave, And rise resplendent from the golden wave: Their parent River hails the sacred rite, And pours his richest streams, in prodigal delight.
 * Pleased Henna saw them from her verdant seat,

And 'gan the nimble Zephyrus entreat, Who down the valley couched with folded wing— "Arise, and mark, O genial Sire of spring, That rulest o'er my meads, with frolic sway, The year bedewing as thy breezes play; Mark the bright Nymphs, the Jove-born Maids, who deign To sport rejoicing on my grassy plain.